Benjamin R. Civiletti
| Benjamin R. Civiletti | |
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| 73rd United States Attorney General | |
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In office August 16, 1979 – January 19, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Griffin B. Bell |
| Succeeded by | William French Smith |
| United States Deputy Attorney General | |
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In office 1978 – August 16, 1979 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Peter F. Flaherty |
| Succeeded by | Charles B. Renfrew |
| Personal details | |
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Benjamin Richard Civiletti July 17, 1935 Peekskill, New York, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Gaile Lundgren Civiletti |
| Children | Benjamin H. Civiletti Andrew S. Civiletti Lynne T. Civiletti |
| Alma mater |
Johns Hopkins University University of Maryland Law School |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Benjamin Richard Civiletti (born July 17, 1935) served as the United States Attorney General during the last year and a half of the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. He was the first Italian American to serve as Attorney General. He is a former senior partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Venable LLP, where he specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations, and in 2005 became the first U.S. lawyer to charge $1,000 an hour.
Civiletti is also currently one of the three members of the Independent Review Board, a board that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union must answer to when allegations of corruption or organized crime infiltration surface under the terms of a 1992 consent decree issued by a federal district court judgment.
Born in Peekskill, New York, in 1935. Civiletti graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where he received an A.B. in psychology in 1957, and from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received a J.D. in 1961.
Civiletti was a law clerk for W. Calvin Chesnut, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, and became an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore a year after graduating from law school.
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