Edward C. DuMont

Edward DuMont
Personal details
Born	December 1961 (age 55) Oakland, California, United States
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A.) Stanford Law School (J.D.)

Edward Carroll DuMont (born December 1961) is an American lawyer currently serving as the Solicitor General of California. In 2010 and 2011 had been nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In November 2011, however, DuMont sent a letter to President Obama asking him to withdraw his nomination to the judgeship. Obama withdrew DuMont's nomination on November 10, 2011, nominating Richard G. Taranto in DuMont's place.

DuMont currently is California's solicitor general.

Born in Oakland, California and raised in northern California, DuMont received a A.B. summa cum laude from Yale University in 1983, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1986. DuMont then served as a law clerk to Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1986 to 1987. After his clerkship, he was awarded a Henry Luce Scholarship, which allowed him to spend a year working at a law firm in Bangkok, Thailand.

DuMont spent several years as an Assistant to the United States Solicitor General at that time, Seth Waxman, and as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice, handling issues relating to computer crime, e-commerce and privacy. DuMont has argued eighteen cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, and has briefed many more. Those cases have covered a wide range of legal issues.

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