Barbara D. Underwood
| Barbara Underwood | |
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| Solicitor General of New York | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2007 |
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| Governor |
Eliot Spitzer David Paterson Andrew Cuomo |
| Preceded by | Caitlin Halligan |
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Solicitor General of the United States Acting |
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In office January 20, 2001 – June 11, 2001 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Seth P. Waxman |
| Succeeded by | Theodore Olson |
| Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States | |
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In office March 23, 1998 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | ??? |
| Succeeded by | Paul Clement |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 16, 1944 Evansville, Indiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
Barbara D. Underwood (born August 16, 1944) is the Solicitor General of New York. She was initially appointed to her position by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in January 2007, and reappointed in 2011 by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Underwood was born in Evansville, Indiana, to Dr. Robert Underwood and Mildred Underwood. She grew up in Belleville, New Jersey, and is the eldest of three daughters. Underwood earned an A.B magna cum laude from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1966 and received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1969.
After graduation, Underwood clerked for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court. After leaving the court, Underwood was a law professor for 10 years at the Yale Law School. She also has taught at Brooklyn Law School and at New York University School of Law.
After becoming the first woman to receive tenure at Yale, she left academia to work in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Underwood later served in the District Attorneys for three different counties in New York City: she was an Assistant District Attorney in New York County, Chief of Appeals and Counsel to the District Attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn), and Senior Executive Assistant District Attorney for Legal Affairs in Queens County. She then served as Chief Assistant United States Attorney and later Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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