Barbara D. Underwood

Barbara D. Underwood ( born August 16, 1944 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American lawyer and former United States Solicitor General.

Biography

After school she studied at Radcliffe College in Cambridge and graduated from this study in 1966. A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law Center, Georgetown University, she finished in 1969. Upon acceptance as a lawyer in New York State, she was initially Recording Secretary ( Clerk ) by David L. Bazelon, a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and thereafter from Thurgood Marshall, a former Solicitor General and longtime associate judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Later, she accepted an appointment as a professor of law at the Law School of Yale University.

In 1982, she was a consultant for the Eastern New York ( Eastern District of New York) responsible federal prosecutor and took office duties until 1989. Later it was between 1993 and 1998 as Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney Federal Attorney for this district.

Then she was 1998-2001 First Deputy Solicitor General ( Principal Deputy Solicitor General ). As such, she was appointed in January 2001 by President George W. Bush as Acting Solicitor General ( Acting U.S. Solicitor General ). This third-highest official in the Justice Department, she held until June 2001. After she was from 2003 to 2007 again Adviser to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, it is since 2007 the Solicitor General of the State of New York.

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