David Iglesias (attorney)
| David C. Iglesias | |
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| United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico | |
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In office October 18, 2001 – December 19, 2006 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Norman Bay |
| Succeeded by | Larry Gomez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
David Claudio Iglesias 1958 (age 58–59) Panama City, Panama |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Cynthia Iglesias |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | Wheaton College (Illinois), University of New Mexico School of Law |
| Occupation | Attorney |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1985–2014 |
| Rank | Captain |
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David Claudio Iglesias (born 1958) is an American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Iglesias serves as the Director of the Wheaton College Center for Faith, Politics and Economics in Illinois. He is also an associate professor of politics and law. In April 2014, Captain Iglesias retired from the US Naval Reserve Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps after 30 years of active and reserve service.
He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2001. He was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for "performance-related issues." (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy). A review of the matter released by the US Department of Justice Inspector General in October 2008 found that his firing had not been performance-related but was politically motivated.
In October 2008, Iglesias was re-activated by the Navy as part of a special prosecution team for Guantanamo detainees suspected of committing terrorism and war crimes. He supervised the conviction of the U.S. v. Noor Uthman terrorism case; one of only six completed war crimes cases since the Commissions were re-established. In 2009, Iglesias was named as an honoree to Esquire Magazine’s annual “Best and Brightest” issue for his work as a terrorism prosecutor with the Defense Department’s Office of Military Commissions. Asked on KRQE.com about the unlikelihood of being named to a frontline job in the war on terror after being fired as a US Attorney, Iglesias allowed: "It's been very ironic."
Iglesias was born in Panama City, Panama to Southern Baptist missionaries, his mother, Margaret Geiger (1923-2012), was a German-American, and his father, Claudio Iglesias (1923-2008), was a Kuna-Panamanian. His mother and father raised him on a small island off the coast of Panama where they were building a church, and doing medical, dental, and linguistic work with the Kuna language (creating the Kuna alphabet). After Panama, his family moved first to Newkirk, Oklahoma (1964-1970), then to Gallup, New Mexico, then back to Panama for one year. Moving again, he graduated from Santa Fe High School, in Santa Fe, New Mexico (1976). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois (1980), and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law (1984).
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