Elisebeth Collins Cook
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Policy
United States Department of Justice
Elisebeth Cook joined the Department of Justice in March 2005 in the Office of Legal Policy. As Assistant Attorney General, she manages the development of civil and criminal policy initiatives, the creation of departmental regulations, and the Department's role in the confirmation of the President's judicial nominees. Prior to assuming this position on January 29, 2008, she served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy, with a particular focus on judicial nominations and issues related to the war on terrorism.
Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mrs. Cook was a litigator
with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC,
where she did both trial and appellate litigation with a specialty
in constitutional law. She clerked for the Honorable Laurence
H. Silberman of the United States Court of the Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit and the Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal
of the United States District Court for the Southern District
of Texas. Mrs. Cook received her J.D. with honors from Harvard
Law School, where she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard
Journal of Law & Public Policy, and received her B.A. with
honors from the University of Chicago. |