Alexander Acosta
| Alexander Acosta | |
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| 27th United States Secretary of Labor | |
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Assumed office April 28, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Tom Perez |
| Dean of Florida International University College of Law | |
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In office July 1, 2009 – April 28, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Leonard Strickman |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | |
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In office June 11, 2005 – June 5, 2009 Acting: June 11, 2005 – August 3, 2006 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Marcos Jiménez |
| Succeeded by | Willy Ferrer |
| Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights | |
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In office August 22, 2003 – June 11, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Bradley Schlozman (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Wan J. Kim |
| Personal details | |
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Rene Alexander Acosta January 16, 1969 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Jan Williams |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
Rene Alexander "Alex" Acosta (born January 16, 1969) is an American attorney, dean, and politician who is the 27th and current United States Secretary of Labor. A Republican, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Labor Relations Board and later served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida. On February 16, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be United States Secretary of Labor. Acosta is the first Hispanic member of Trump's cabinet. He is the former the dean of Florida International University College of Law.
Acosta is the only son of exiles from communist Cuba. He is a native of Miami, Florida, where he attended the Gulliver Schools. He received an A.B. degree in economics from Harvard College in 1990 and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School 1994.
Following law school, Acosta served as a law clerk to Samuel Alito, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1994 to 1995. Acosta then worked at the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, where he specialized in employment and labor issues. While in Washington, Acosta taught classes on employment law, disability-based discrimination law, and civil rights law at the George Mason University School of Law.
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