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Brett M. Kavanaugh

Birth: 1965 Washington, D.C.
 
Legal Residence:   Washington, DC
 
Education: 1983 - 1987 Yale College
    B.A. degree, cum laude
 
  1987 - 1990 Yale Law School
    J.D. degree
 
Bar Admittance: 1990 Maryland
1992 District of Columbia
 
Experience: 1990 - 1991 Law Clerk to the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton
    United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
 
  1991 - 1992 Law Clerk to the Honorable Alex Kozinski
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 
  1992 - 1993 United States Department of Justice
    Office of the Solicitor General
    Attorney
 
  1993 - 1994 Law Clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy
    Supreme Court of the United States
 
  1994 - 1997 Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr
  1998 Associate Counsel
 
  1997 - 1998 Kirkland & Ellis
  1999 - 2001 Partner
 
  2001 - present President George W. Bush
    Associate Counsel to the President, 2001 -2003
    Senior Associate Counsel to the President, 2003
    Staff Secretary, 2003-present



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