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Peter D. Keisler

Birth: 1960 Hempstead, New York
 
Legal Residence:   Maryland
 
Education: 1977 - 1981 Yale College
    B.A. degree
 
  1982 - 1985 Yale Law School
    J.D. degree
 
Bar: 1985 Pennsylvania
  1989 District of Columbia
 
Experience: 1985 – 1986 United States Court of Appeals for the
    District of Columbia Circuit
    Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Bork
 
  1986 – 1988 Executive Office of the President
    Office of the Counsel to the President
    Assistant Counsel (1986-1987)
    Associate Counsel to the President (1987-1988)
 
  1988 Supreme Court of the United States
   

Law Clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy

 
  1989 – 2002 Sidley & Austin
    Associate (1989-1993)
    Partner (1993-2002)
 
  2002 – 2007

United States Department of Justice

   

Acting Attorney General (2007)

    Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division (2003-2007)
    Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General (2002-2003)
    Acting Associate Attorney General (2002-2003)



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