Mark Filip

Mark Robert Filip


Attorney General of the United States Acting
In office January 20, 2009 – February 3, 2009
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Michael Mukasey
Succeeded by	Eric Holder
Deputy Attorney General of the United States
In office March 10, 2008 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Paul McNulty
Succeeded by	David W. Ogden
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office February 8, 2004 – March 9, 2008
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Harry D. Leinenweber
Succeeded by	Sharon J. Coleman
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-01) June 1, 1966 (age 50) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Illinois Christ Church, Oxford Harvard Law School
Profession	Attorney

Mark Robert Filip (born June 1, 1966) is an American lawyer specializing in class action and white collar criminal and regulatory defense. Formerly a partner at Skadden, Arps, he currently practices in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland and Ellis. From 2004 until 2008, Filip served as a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. As the George W. Bush administration ended, Filip served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and as the Barack Obama administration began he briefly served as Acting Attorney General (from January 20 to February 3, 2009).

Born in Chicago, Filip attended Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, the same high school attended by Hillary Clinton. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 with degrees in economics and history, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After college, he attended Christ Church at Oxford University in England on a Marshall Scholarship, and graduated in 1990 with a Bachelors in Law, First Class Honors. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1992 and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.