David W. Ogden

David W. Ogden

David William Ogden (born November 12, 1953 ) is an American lawyer who was also deputy US Attorney General at times.

Life

After attending school, Ogden first studied at the University of Pennsylvania , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1981 . He then completed a postgraduate degree in law at the Law School of Harvard University in 1981 with a Juris Doctor (JD). While studying there, he not only became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic association , but was also the editor of the Harvard Law Review .

After being admitted to the District of Columbia as a lawyer , he was first clerk to Abraham David Sofaer , a US District Court judge for the southern borough of New York , in 1981, and then from 1982 to 1983 by Harry A. Blackmun , a judge at the United States Supreme Court . After 1983 he was first employee lawyer and then in 1986 partner of the law firm Ennis Friedman & Bersoff , before 1988 Partner of Jenner & Block , was a law firm with lawyers today and headquartered in Chicago .

After six years of service, he switched to government service in 1994 and was first deputy chief advisor and legal advisor at the US Department of Defense . In 1995 he joined the US Department of Justice , first as Associate Deputy Attorney General and then from 1997 to 1999 as Chief of Staff and advisor to Justice Secretary Janet Reno . Most recently, he was there US Assistant Attorney General and as such from 1999 to 2001 and head of the Department of Civil Law ( Civil Division ).

After the end of Bill Clinton's presidency , he left government service in 2001 and was a partner at Wilmer Hale , a major law firm with 1,000 lawyers and based in Washington , until 2009 . There he was responsible for regulatory and government affairs. After President Barack Obama's inauguration , he became US Deputy Attorney General Deputy Attorney General in March 2009 and held this position until February 2010. After that, the office was initially taken over temporarily by Gary Grindler and shortly thereafter by James M. Cole . Already when he was nominated for the office of Deputy Attorney General he came under fire because he spoke out in favor of the right to an abortion and represented liberal views on questions of sexuality . After his resignation in February 2010, he returned to work as a lawyer at Wilmer Hale .

Web links

• David W. Ogden in nndb (English)
• Biography on the homepage of Wilmer Hale

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE WASHINGTON POST: Cast of Characters: Ogden a Top Candidate for Justice Dept. No. 2 (November 24, 2008)
2. ↑ Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden steps down (politico.com, December 3, 2009)
3. ↑ David W. Ogden: Pro-Abortion Extremist (Freedom Eden, February 4, 2009)
4. ↑ THE NATIONAL REVIEW: Deputy Attorney General Nominee David W. Ogden (February 4, 2009)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Why He Matters (whorunsgov.com) ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.