Education
University at Buffalo, The State University of New New York Duke University.
University at Buffalo, The State University of New New York Duke University.
She served as the United States in the United States Department of Justice from 2011 until stepping down in December 2013. Seitz was confirmed to the post by the Senate in a voice vote on June 28, 2011. Seitz"s father, Collins J. Seitz, was a chancellor of Delaware who wrote the 1952 decision in Gebhart v.
Belton, which paved the way for Brown v.
Board of Education. Seitz earned a bachelor"s degree in 1978 from Duke University, and was a Rhodes Scholar. She earned an Master of Arts Oxfordshire. in 1980 from Oxford University.
She earned a law degree in 1985 from the University at Buffalo Law School. After law school, Seitz clerked from 1985 until 1986 for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Seitz then clerked from 1986 until 1987 for Associate Justice William Brennan of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In November of 2011, Seitz was included on The New Republic"s list of Washington"s most powerful, least famous people. In November 2008, Legal Times reported that Seitz"s name was being discussed as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States by Barack Obama. On August 4, 2010, National Public Radio reported that Seitz was the leading candidate to serve as the in the United States Department of Justice.
President Obama had not appointed a Senate-confirmed nominee to head the OLC, and his previous nominee for the job, Dawn Johnsen, withdrew her candidacy after it languished for more than a year in the face of opposition from Senate Republicans.
On January 5, 2011, Obama nominated Seitz to be Assistant Attorney General for OLC. The full United States Senate confirmed Seitz in a voice vote on June 28, 2011. During Seitz"s tenure, she wrote an opinion that stated that the United States. Senate"s periodic pro forma sessions did not interrupt a Senate recess and thus did not prevent the president from making recess appointments.
The issue is pending before the United States. Supreme Court. Seitz resigned as Assistant Attorney General, effective December 20, 2013.
Seitz"s husband, Roy West. McLeese III is a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
McCleese served as Assistant to the Solicitor General from 1997 to 1999. He rejoined the Office of the Solicitor General as Acting Deputy Solicitor General to cover the position that longtime deputy Michael Dreeben vacated while on leave to teach.
