For Immediate Release
January 20, 2001

Contact:
Karen Sibert at (202) 662-9519

 

   WASHINGTON - Dean Judith Areen has announced that outgoing Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman will join Georgetown University Law Center as a visiting professor this spring.

Seth P. Waxman is the 41st Solicitor General of the United States. President Clinton nominated him on September 19, 1997, and the United States Senate confirmed his appointment on November 9, 1997. He received his commission and took the oath of office on November 13, 1997. 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.

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 Waxman received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following graduation, he served as a law clerk to the late Gerhard A. Gesell, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. Thereafter, he entered private practice with the firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, where he specialized in complex criminal, civil, and appellate litigation.

He 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. 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.