Michael Bromwich

Michael Bromwich
Bromwich (right) sworn in by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar as Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (2010)
Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
In office June 15, 2010 – October 1, 2011
Preceded by	S. Elizabeth Birnbaum
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Inspector General of the Department of Justice
In office June 9, 1994 – August 16, 1999
Preceded by	Richard Hankinson
Succeeded by	Robert Ashbaugh (Acting)
Personal details
Born	(1953-12-19) December 19, 1953 (age 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA, MPA, JD)

Michael R. Bromwich (born December 19, 1953) is an American litigation attorney who was the inspector general of the U.S. Justice Department from 1994 to 1999. He was appointed as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement on June 15, 2010, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.^[1] (The agency was known as the Minerals Management Service prior to that date.) He served in that capacity until the dissolution of the agency on October 1, 2011.