Seth P. Waxman

Seth P. Waxman

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Seth Paul Waxman


order=41st
title=United States Solicitor General
term_start=November 13, 1997
term_end=January 20, 2001
president=Bill Clinton
predecessor=Walter E. Dellinger III
successor=Theodore Olson
birth_date=birth date and age|1951|11|28
birth_place=Hartford, Connecticut
death_date=
death_place=
party=Democrat

Seth Paul Waxman (born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 28, 1951) was the 41st Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President Clinton on September 19, 1997, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 9, 1997. He received his commission and took the oath of office on November 13, 1997, serving as Solicitor General until January 20, 2001.

Waxman is a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from the area's public schools. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1973 and was a Rockefeller Fellow in Kenya during the following year. In 1977, Waxman received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Following graduation, Waxman served as a law clerk to the late Gerhard A. Gesell, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. Thereafter, he entered the private practice of law with the firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, where he specialized in complex criminal, civil, and appellate litigation. Waxman has received substantial recognition for his pro bono work, including the American Bar Association's Pro Bono Publico award and the Anti-Defamation League's Benjamin N. Cardozo Certificate of Merit.

Waxman joined the United States Department of Justice in May 1994. Prior to being appointed Solicitor General, he served in a number of other positions in the Department of Justice, including Acting Solicitor General, Acting Deputy Attorney General, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, and Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Waxman made the oral argument to the Supreme Court in "Boumediene v. Bush" which upheld habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. [Wilmer Hale press release [http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/news/newsDetail.aspx?news=1169] , Retrieved on 13 June, 2008]

Waxman has long been active in Bar, community and school organizations. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Professionalism, a current and past ex officio member of several committees of the Judicial Conference of the United States, an ex officio member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Visiting Committee for Harvard College.

Waxman is married with three children, Noah, Sarah, and Ethan, and makes his home in the District of Columbia, where he practices law as a partner with the law firm Wilmer Hale.

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* [http://www.usdoj.gov/osg Office of the Solicitor General]
* [http://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/ Seth Waxman at Wilmer Hale]


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