Jamie Gorelick | |
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Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council | |
Assumed office March 21, 2022 Serving with William Bratton | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | William Webster |
28th United States Deputy Attorney General | |
In office March 17, 1994 – May 1997 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Philip Heymann |
Succeeded by | Eric Holder |
General Counsel of the Department of Defense | |
In office May 5, 1993 – March 17, 1994 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | David Addington |
Succeeded by | Judith Miller |
Personal details | |
Born | Jamie Shona Gorelick[1] May 6, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse |
Richard Waldhorn (m. 1975) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Shirley Gorelick (mother) |
Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
Jamie Shona Gorelick (/ɡəˈrɛlɪk/; born May 6, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration. She has been a partner at WilmerHale since 2003 and has served on the board of directors of Amazon since February 2012.[2][3]
Gorelick served on British Petroleum's Advisory Council, as their top legal counsel after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[4] She was appointed by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the September 11 attacks, and also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae.
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