Jamie Gorelick
| Jamie Gorelick | |
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| United States Deputy Attorney General | |
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In office March 17, 1994 – May 1997 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Philip Heymann |
| Succeeded by | Eric Holder |
| General Counsel of the Department of Defense | |
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In office May 5, 1993 – March 17, 1994 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Addington |
| Succeeded by | Judith Miller |
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May 6, 1950 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Waldhorn |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Jamie S. Gorelick (/ɡəˈrɛlɪk/; born May 6, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration. She has been a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr since July 2003. She is a director of Amazon.com.
Gorelick served on British Petroleum's Advisory Council, as their top legal counsel after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She was appointed by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae. Results of an internal audit showing improper accounting within Fannie Mae is given as the reason for her resignation. While at the US Department of Justice she authored a memo that clarified Reagan era rules for communications on terrorism within the FBI. Critics cite this action as one reason for lack of sharing intelligence prior to the September 11 attacks.
Gorelick was born in New York City and grew up in Great Neck, New York, in a Jewish family. She attended South High School. In high school she was the secretary of the Student Government. She obtained her B.A. magna cum laude from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1972, where she was designated Radcliffe Orator, and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975.
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