Stephen G. Bradbury
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Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Acting |
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In office February 2005 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Daniel Levin (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | David J. Barron (Acting) |
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Steven Gill Bradbury Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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Stanford University (BA) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (JD) |
| Awards | Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service |
Steven Gill Bradbury is an American lawyer and government official. He served as Acting Assistant Attorney General (AAG) from 2005 to 2007 and Principal Deputy AAG from 2004 to 2009, heading the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the U.S. Department of Justice during President George W. Bush's second term.
During his tenure in OLC, he authored a number of significant classified opinions providing legal authorization for so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", which are frequently described as torture. Bradbury was nominated to be the Assistant Attorney General for OLC but individual Democratic Senators put holds on his nomination, preventing the full Senate from voting on it, and Democratic leaders in the Senate instituted pro forma sessions of the Senate during scheduled recesses to prevent the President from giving him a recess appointment. Bradbury continued to serve as the acting chief of OLC until the end of the Bush Administration on January 20, 2009.
He is currently a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Dechert LLP. In June 2017, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to become General Counsel of the United States Department of Transportation.
Bradbury was born in 1958 in Portland, Oregon, the youngest of four children. His father, Edward T. Bradbury, died when he was 11 months old, and his mother supported the family by working nights and taking in laundry to supplement their Social Security income. He grew up in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Portland, where he attended Washington High School from 1972 to 1976. He was student body president his senior year. Bradbury was the first in his family to graduate from college, earning a B.A. from Stanford University in 1980 with a major in English.
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