Gregory G. Garre

Gregory G. Garre ( born November 1, 1964 in Berwyn, Chester County, Pennsylvania) is an American lawyer and former United States Solicitor General.

Biography

After school he studied management science at Dartmouth College and graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Government) from. A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law Center of the George Washington University, he finished in 1991 with a Juris Doctor ( JD). After that, he was first secretary ( Clerk ) by Anthony Joseph Scirica, a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia from 1992 to 1993 by William H. Rehnquist, the Chief Justice. In 1994 he became a partner in the law firm Hogan & Hartson, the oldest and largest law firm in Washington DC, where he worked until 2000 on 4 February 1994 after qualifying as a lawyer in the District of Columbia.

In 2000 he was an employee in the Ministry of Justice of the United States, where he was an assistant to the Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman. After retiring in 2004, he returned again first as a partner in the law firm Hogan & Hartson back. In 2005 he was First Deputy ( Deputy ) Solicitor General and took over in 2008, first as acting the Office of the Solicitor General before U.S. President George W. Bush appointed him in June 2008 to the Solicitor General. He continued in this position until the end of Bush's term in January 2009.

After his retirement from government service was Gregory Garre partner in the law firm Latham & Watkins, a large law firm with approximately 1800 lawyers in nearly two dozen cities.