Background
Michael Mukasey’s family comes from Belarus. Mukasey’s father was born and lived in a small town near Baranavichy in Belarus and emigrated to the U.S. in 1921. Mukasey, Michael Bernard was born on July 28, 1941 in Bronx, New York.
lawyer United States Attorney General
Michael Mukasey’s family comes from Belarus. Mukasey’s father was born and lived in a small town near Baranavichy in Belarus and emigrated to the U.S. in 1921. Mukasey, Michael Bernard was born on July 28, 1941 in Bronx, New York.
AB, Columbia University in 1963;
Yale Law School in 1967;
Degree (honorary), Brooklyn Law School, 2002.
Associate Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Brookfield, 1967-1972, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, New York City, 1976-1988.
Partner Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, 2006—2007. Assistant United States attorney criminal division (southern district) New York United States Department Justice, 1972-1976, chief corruption unit, 1975—1976.
Judge United States District Court (southern district) New York, 1988—2006, chief judge, 2000—2006, senior judge, 2006. Attorney general United States Department Justice, 2007—2009.
Partner litigation department Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City, since 2009.
Lecturer Columbia Law School, since 1993.
Member of the firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler;
Member of the Automation and Technology Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States;
Chairman of the Committee on Public Access to Information and Proceedings of the New York State Bar Association;
Member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Communications Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York;
Member of the American Bar Association.
Married Susan Mukasey. Children: Marc, Jessica.