Norman Bay
| Norman Bay | |
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| U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico | |
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In office September 8, 2000 – October 15, 2001 |
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| Succeeded by | David Iglesias |
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| Born | 1960 (age 56–57) Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | Chinese-American |
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Norman C. Bay (born 1960 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois) is a former United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico. Bay was the first Chinese-American United States Attorney. Bay is the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Bay was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and graduated from Albuquerque Academy. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge Otto R. Skopil, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then worked in the Legal Adviser’s Office of the U.S. State Department. From 1989 to 2000, he was a federal prosecutor (an Assistant U.S. Attorney) in the District of Columbia and in New Mexico. Before becoming the United States Attorney, he was a supervisor of the Violent Crime Section in New Mexico. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he tried cases in D.C. Superior Court, and U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia and New Mexico. He also has extensive experience in appellate advocacy and has argued a number of cases in the D.C. Court of Appeals, the D.C. Circuit, and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that have resulted in reported opinions.
Attorney General Janet Reno named Bay as the Interim U.S. Attorney in New Mexico on March 8, 2000. At the time Bay was named Interim U.S. Attorney, he was a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Mexico and had been an Assistant U.S. Attorney for more than a decade. President Bill Clinton nominated Bay to the Senate on May 25, 2000, and the Senate unanimously confirmed Bay on September 8, 2000.
As United States Attorney in New Mexico, Bay inherited the Wen Ho Lee case, which had been charged before Bay took office. This case involved a Chinese-American scientist accused of mishandling nuclear secrets. Six months after Bay became Interim U.S. Attorney, the case was resolved through a plea agreement. At the hearing, Judge James Parker criticized other top government officials but called Bay an "outstanding" member of the Bar whom he held in the "highest regard."
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