Rod J. Rosenstein
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United States Deputy Attorney General Nominee |
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Taking office TBD* |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Sally Yates |
| United States Attorney for the District of Maryland | |
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Assumed office July 12, 2005 |
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George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Thomas M. DiBiagio |
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| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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University of Pennsylvania (BS) Harvard University (JD) |
| *Pending Senate confirmation | |
Rod J. Rosenstein (born 1965) is the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland and a former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Incoming President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice on January 13, 2017.
Rosenstein graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude in 1986. He earned his J.D. degree cum laude in 1989 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
After his clerkship, Rosenstein joined the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. From 1990 to 1993, he prosecuted public corruption cases as a trial attorney with the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division, then led by Assistant Attorney General Robert S. Mueller, III.
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