Peter Nickles

Peter Nickles
13th Attorney General of the District of Columbia
In office
January 6, 2008 – January 2011
MayorAdrian Fenty
Preceded byLinda Singer
Succeeded byIrvin B. Nathan
Personal details
Born
Peter John Nickles

(1938-09-26) September 26, 1938 (age 86)
Middletown, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)

Peter John Nickles (born September 26, 1938) is an American attorney who served as Attorney General of the District of Columbia from 2008 to 2011. He was previously General Counsel to Mayor Adrian Fenty from the time he took office in January 2007 and a litigator at Covington & Burling from 1963 to 2006. He left office in 2011 to return to Covington.[1]

  1. ^ "Former D.C Attorney General Peter Nickles returns to law firm". Washington Business Journal. American City Business Journals. January 6, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2022.