Robert C. Bonner
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| Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security |
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In office March 1, 2003 – November 30, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Ralph Basham |
| Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service Department of the Treasury |
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In office September 10, 2001 – March 1, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Raymond W. Kelly |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California | |
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In office May 24, 1989 – August 12, 1990 |
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| Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Pamela Ann Rymer |
| Succeeded by | Audrey B. Collins |
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January 29, 1942 Wichita, Kansas, USA |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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University of Maryland (B.A.) Georgetown University (J.D.) |
| Profession | Attorney |
| Website | Biography at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP website |
Robert Cleve Bonner (born January 29, 1942) is an American former prosecutor, former federal judge, former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration and former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and former Chair of the California Commission on Judicial Performance.
Judge Bonner was born in Wichita, Kansas. He grew up in Wichita where his father practiced law and his mother was a school teacher. He credits his mother for infusing him with a strong commitment to public service. He received a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1963 and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1966. He was a law clerk for Albert Lee Stephens, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California from 1966 to 1967. He was on active duty in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps from 1967-1971, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, USNR. During that time, he served for nearly two years on an aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42). He was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California from 1971 to 1975, and then went into private practice in Los Angeles for nine years. Afterwards he became the U.S. Attorney for the same district in 1984. As a U.S. Attorney, he worked closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on two record-breaking money laundering cases, Operations Pisces and Polar Cap, and had led the prosecution team against the killers of a DEA special agent.
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