Ethnicity:
Mueller is of German, English and Scottish ancestry.
Robert Mueller was born on August 7, 1944, in New York City, but grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a son of Robert Swan Mueller, Jr. and Alice C. Truesdale. Mueller also has four younger sisters.
Robert Mueller attended Princeton Country Day School, now known as Princeton Day School. Later, he went on to study at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. Then, Mueller entered Princeton University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics. He also studied at New York University from 1966 to 1967 and received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations. In 1973 he received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Robert Mueller joined the United States Marine Corps in 1968. He served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the Third Marine Division in Vietnam. Mueller ended his military service in 1971. In 1973, he took up the job as a litigator at the firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, in San Francisco. He held this post until 1976.
In 1976, Robert Mueller became an assistant United States Attorney for the District of Northern California. In 1980, he became chief of the unit of special prosecutions, and, in 1981, he was promoted to chief of the criminal division. The following year he relocated to Boston to work as chief of the criminal division with the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. There he worked on numerous cases involving financial fraud, international money laundering, corruption, narcotics and even terrorism. In 1986 Mueller became a United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and, the following year, he took up the post of deputy United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. He held this post until 1988.
Robert Mueller served as a partner at the law firm Hill & Barlow from 1988 to 1989. In 1989, he became an assistant to the Attorney General for criminal matters at the United States Department of Justice. One year later he was appointed the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He led the prosecution of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega, the Lockerbie bombing case and then went to form a unit dedicated to cybersecurity. In 1993, Mueller joined the law firm Hale and Dorr as a partner. Robert Mueller returned to public service in 1995, when he became senior litigator in the homicide section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office.
From 1998 to 2001, Robert Mueller worked as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. On July 5, 2001, then-president George W. Bush nominated Mueller for the position of Federal Bureau of Investigation director. He assumed office as the sixth Federal Bureau of Investigation director on September 4, 2001. Mueller decided to reorganize the bureau. He installed high-tech global operations created to tackle terrorist threats and insisted on expanding the surveillance system. President Barack Obama offered him to extend his ten-year term by another two years in 2011. Mueller gladly accepted the offer and the Senate approved this request on July 27, 2011.
After completing his service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller served as a professor and lecturer at Stanford University from 2013 to 2014. He also returned to the company WilmerHale as a partner in 2014 and oversaw important cases, such as the NFL's controversial suspension of player Ray Rice over domestic abuse charges. On May 17, 2017, Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate Russia's involvement in any kind of manipulation of the 2016 presidential election results and possible links to President Donald Trump.
Robert Mueller is an American lawyer and government official, known as former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He also made an investigation devoted to Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election and related matters. Mueller has been listed as a noteworthy Federal Bureau of Investigation Director by Marquis Who's Who.
Robert Mueller received numerous military awards including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. In 2016, he received the Sylvanus Thayer Award for public service. Mueller was awarded the Baker Award in 2017 for intelligence and national security contributions.
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2019Robert Mueller was raised as a Presbyterian, however, later he became an Episcopalian.
Robert Mueller is a Republican, however, a striking number of people describe him as apolitical.
Quotations:
"I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again."
"You really don't think about it as you go through it; you just try to do the right thing at the right time."
"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."
"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
Robert Mueller is a member of the California Bar Association and Massachusetts Bar Association.
Quotes from others about the person
Eric Holder: "He has earned the confidence of two presidents for his ability to lead and his calmness under fire. The United States faces ongoing threats from terrorists intent on attacking us both at home and abroad, and it is crucial that the FBI have sustained, strong leadership to confront that threat. There is no better person for that job than Robert Mueller."
Robert Mueller met Ann Standish at a high school party when they were 17. They married on September 3, 1966, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The marriage produced two daughters.
Robert Swan Mueller Junior (July 30, 1916 – December 26, 2007) was an executive with DuPont. He also served as a Navy officer in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters during World War II.
(1920 – 2007)
Ann Cabell Standish (April 1948) is an educator and social activist. She worked as a special-education teacher for children with learning disabilities.
William Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American lawyer and government official. He is also the 77th and 85th United States Attorney General.
