C. Allen Parker

C. Allen Parker
Born	Jacksonville, Florida
Alma mater	Duke University (B.A) University of Chicago (M.A) Columbia Law School (J.D.)
Occupation	Lawyer
Known for	Election to Presiding Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore; A leading U.S. banking and finance lawyer

C. Allen Parker was the Presiding Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He currently serves as the General Counsel of Wells Fargo.

Allen Parker was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Duke University in 1977 and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1980. He then earned a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Columbia Law School in 1983, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. After graduating, Parker served in a clerkship with Amalya Lyle Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Parker joined Cravath in 1984 and became a partner in 1990. He was elected Deputy Presiding Partner in October 2006. In January 2013, he became the firm's fifteenth Presiding Partner.

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