Seth P. Waxman
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| Seth Paul Waxman | |
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| In office November 13, 1997 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Walter E. Dellinger III |
| Succeeded by | Theodore Olson |
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| Born | November 28, 1951 Hartford, Connecticut |
| Political party | Democratic |
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 has the distinction of being one of two attorneys currently living that have argued over 40 cases before the United States Supreme Court, the other being his successor in the office of Solicitor General, Theodore Olson.[1]
Waxman made the oral argument to the Supreme Court in Boumediene_v._Bush which upheld habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.[2]
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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- ^ Richard Panchyk, Our Supreme Court: A History with 14 Activities
- ^ Wilmer Hale press release [1], Retrieved on 13 June 2008
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| Preceded by Walter E. Dellinger III |
Solicitor General 1997–2001 |
Succeeded by Theodore Olson |
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