Samuel K. Skinner

Samuel K. Skinner

Samuel Knox Skinner (born June 10, 1938 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American economic manager , lawyer and politician of the Republican Party , who was both United States Secretary of Transportation and Chief of Staff of the White House .

biography

After attending school, he studied accounting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he earned a Bachelor of Science (BS Accounting) in 1960 . After his subsequent one-year military service in the US Army , he worked for a sales agent at IBM from 1960 to 1968 and also completed a post-graduate degree in law at DePaul University in Chicago, graduating with a Juris Doctor (JD) in 1966 . After being admitted to the lawyer in the state of Illinois, he was a lawyer and as a professor at the Northwestern University operates. After working as a federal attorney from 1975 to 1977 - in this position he succeeded James R. Thompson - he was a senior partner at the law firm Sidley Austin , a major law firm with 1,600 lawyers and based in Chicago, until 1989 .

On February 6, 1989, he was appointed by US President George Bush as Secretary of Transportation in his cabinet . As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became White House Chief of Staff on December 14, 1991 and held this position until August 23, 1992.

After leaving government, he worked in the private sector , including CEO of Commonwealth Edison and board member of Dade Behring , EVEREN Capital and Odetics ITS . After serving as chairman and CEO of US Freightways , he has been a consultant for the law firm Greenberg Traurig, a major Miami- based law firm with 1,500 lawyers and a board member of Express Scripts, since 2004 .

Web links

• Samuel K. Skinner in the Notable Names Database (English)
• Samuel K. Skinner in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)