Jeffrey P Minear
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Jeffrey P. Minear, senior litigation counsel and assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice (DOJ), has been selected by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., as his new administrative assistant. Minear, 51, began work at the Supreme Court on September 11, 2006. He succeeds Sally M. Rider, who leaves the Court to become the director of The William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government at the University of Arizona.
[edit] Career Highlights
Minear was a chemical engineer for Union Carbide Corporation in Texas City, Texas, from 1977 to 1979. After receiving his master's of science degree in resource policy and management from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1982, he held a one-year appointment as a judicial clerk for Judge Monroe G. McKay (10th Cir.). Minear then joined the Environment and Natural Resources Division of DOJ, where he worked on policy, legislative, and appellate matters from 1983 to 1985. From 1985 to 1998, he was assistant to the Solicitor General, DOJ, responsible for Supreme Court and appellate litigation focusing on civil, environmental, and intellectual property issues. In his position as senior litigation counsel, Minear was responsible for Supreme Court and appellate litigation and for overseeing the government's participation in all Supreme Court original actions. Minear has argued 56 cases before the Supreme Court.
Minear has held appointments as a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University Law School and the University of Utah College of Law. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a seminar on the history and role of the Office of the Solicitor General.
