Seth P. Waxman 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.
Mr. 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 Mr. Waxman
received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the
Yale Law Journal.
Following graduation, Mr. 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. Mr. 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 J. Cardozo
Certificate of Merit.
Mr. Waxman joined the 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.
Mr. 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.
Mr. Waxman is married with three children, and makes his home in the District of Columbia.
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