Christopher H. Schroeder

Christopher Henry Schroeder (born 1948) served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy for the United States Department of Justice from 2010 until the end of 2012. He also is the Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law at the Duke University School of Law.

Born in Springfield, Ohio, Schroeder earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in June 1968, a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1971 and a law degree from University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1974. While at law school, Schroeder was the editor-in-chief of the California Law Review.

Schroeder began his legal career in 1974 as an associate in the San Francisco office of the law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen LLP). In June 1976, Schroeder left McCutchen to take a job for one year as a research associate at the Earl Warren Legal Institute (now the Institute for Legal Research) at the University of California Berkeley.

From July 1977 until March 1979, Schroeder worked as a partner at the law firm of Armour, Schroeder, St. John Wilcox and Goodlin, which was a small firm that he had started with four colleagues.

In July 1979, Schroeder became an associate professor of law at Duke University School of Law. He became a full professor of law in 1985, and later added the additional title of Professor of Public Policy Studies. In addition, Schroeder added the responsibilities of Director of the Program in Public Law at Duke's law school in 2000.

Schroeder also served as a consultant for the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers from 2002 until 2005, and he was of counsel for the firm from 2005 until 2009.

From July 1987 until January 1988, from February 1988 until June 1990, and from July 1991 until October 1991, Schroeder worked as a Special Nominations Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He served as Chief Counsel to the committee from July 1992 until February 1993.

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