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Assistant Attorney General, Civil
Division:
Tony West
Tony West was nominated by President
Barack Obama to be the Assistant
Attorney General for the Justice
Department’s Civil Division on January
22, 2009. He was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate on April 20, 2009.
From 1993 through 1994, he served as a
Special Assistant in the Department
under the direction of U.S. Deputy
Attorneys General Philip Heymann and
Jamie Gorelick, as well as Attorney
General Janet Reno. Mr. West worked on
the development of national crime
policy, including the 1994 Omnibus Crime
Bill. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. West served
as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the
Northern District of California.
Mr. West later served as state Special
Assistant Attorney General, an appointee
of California Attorney General Bill
Lockyer. In that capacity, he advised
the California Attorney General on
various matters including high-tech
crime, identity theft, the Microsoft
antitrust litigation, police officer
training, civil rights, and police
misconduct.
Prior to his return to the Justice
Department, Mr. West was a litigation
partner at Morrison & Foerster in San
Francisco. His trial practice there
included representing individuals and
companies in civil and criminal matters.
Mr. West graduated with honors from
Harvard College, where he served as
publisher of the Harvard Political
Review, and received his law degree from
Stanford Law School, where he was
elected President of the Stanford Law
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