David L. Bernhardt
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| United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior | |
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Assumed office August 1, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Michael L. Connor |
| Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior | |
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In office October 5, 2006 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Sue Ellen Wooldridge |
| Succeeded by | Hilary Tompkins |
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| Born | Rifle, Colorado |
| Political party | Republican |
David L. Bernhardt is an American attorney and government administrator who currently serves as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior. A partner and shareholder at the Colorado law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, he began working for the United States Department of the Interior in 2001, and served as the department's solicitor from 2006 to 2009, among other roles. On April 28, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated him to be the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2017. He was then sworn into office on August 1, 2017.
Growing up in Rifle, Colorado, David Bernhardt was active in Colorado politics from the age of sixteen, when he made his case to the Rifle City Council to not levy taxes on arcade games at a teen center he was starting in his hometown. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1990. While at the University of Northern Colorado, he applied and received an internship at the Supreme Court of the United States. He graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School in 1994. He was admitted to the Colorado Bar Association later that year.
He started his career as a lawyer in Colorado. Early on he worked for U.S. Representative Scott McInnis, a Grand Junction Republican. He worked for McInnis in the 1990s, and then in 1998 he became an associate with Brownstein Hyatt and Farber, a Denver law and lobbying firm.
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