Leslie Caldwell | |
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| United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division | |
| In office May 15, 2014 – January 13, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Mythili Raman (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Brian Benczkowski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Leslie Ragon Caldwell 1957 (age 66–67) Steubenville, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Pennsylvania State University (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Leslie Ragon Caldwell (born 1957) is an American attorney, who served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2014 to 2017. She has spent the majority of her professional career handling federal criminal cases, as both a prosecutor and as defense attorney.[1] Caldwell served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 1987 to 1998, after which she was recruited by then US Attorney Robert Mueller to serve as Chief of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Securities Fraud Section of the United States Attorney's office for the Northern District of California; she served from 1999 to 2002. In September 2017, she became a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, in San Francisco, CA. In late 2022, Caldwell retired from her partnership at Latham & Watkins.
- ^ "Meet the AAG". The United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 23 December 2016.