Jenny Durkan
| Jenny Durkan | |
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| U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington | |
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In office October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John McKay |
| Succeeded by | Annette Hayes (Acting) |
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May 19, 1958 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Domestic partner | Dana Garvey |
| Alma mater |
University of Notre Dame University of Washington, Seattle |
Jenny Anne Durkan (born May 19, 1958) is an American lawyer from Seattle, Washington who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington from October 2009 through September 2014.
Durkan grew up in Issaquah, Washington and attended a private Catholic girls school. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1980. After graduating from Notre Dame, she moved to an Inuit fishing village on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, where she taught English and coached a girls basketball team.
Durkan earned her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1985. "I wanted to be a lawyer since I was 5 years old," she told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1992. "When I graduated from law school, my mother said, 'Finally someone is going to pay you to argue."'
Immediately upon graduating from law school in 1985, Durkan began her legal career at the Foster, Pepper & Shefelman law firm as a civil litigator, where she spent two years. She then joined the large law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.
In 1991, Durkan joined the law firm of Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender. She served on the Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission from 1993 to 1996. She served as the first Citizen Observer on the Seattle Police Firearms Review Board from 1997–2000 and two Seattle mayors asked her to serve on Citizen Review Committees for the Seattle Police Department. She also played an advisory role on the establishment of the King County Drug Court and the Mental Health Court. She later helped create a specialized drug program in the federal courts in Western Washington.
In September 1994, Durkan left the Schroeter law firm to join the staff of then-Washington Gov. Mike Lowry as his lawyer and political adviser. In February of the following year, Durkan resigned and returned to the Schroeter law firm after allegations of sexual harassment against Lowry by one of his top aides, former press aide Susanne Albright.
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