Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
| Thurgood Marshall | |
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| White House Cabinet Secretary | |
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In office February 7, 1997 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Kitty Higgins |
| Succeeded by | Albert Hawkins |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 12, 1956 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Teddi Levy (2008–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of Virginia (BA, JD) |
Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (born August 12, 1956) is an American lawyer and son of the late Supreme Court of the United States Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. worked in the Clinton White House and is currently a partner at the international law firm Bingham McCutchen, LLP and a principal at its global strategic consulting subsidiary, Bingham Consulting. He is also chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation. According to documents filed with the SEC, he is a director serving on the board of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest commercial vendor of federal detainment and prisoner transport in the United States. Since 2012, Marshall is also an independent director serving on the board of Genesco Inc., an international footwear and apparel retailer based in Nashville, TN.
Bingham McCutchen gained Marshall as a partner when it acquired Swidler Berlin, where he had been a partner since 2003. In addition to counseling clients, Marshall provided internal advice to Swidler Berlin on ethics compliance and corporate governance. He became a managing director of Swidler Berlin's Harbour Group in 2005. [1]. He is now part of Bingham McCutchen’s Government Affairs practice, counseling clients on relations with Congress, the Executive Branch and independent regulatory agencies. He has provided legislative and regulatory counsel on corporate mergers, professional and amateur sports, commercial aviation, utilities and banking regulation, and legal process reforms.
Marshall has been named one of Washington's top campaign and election lawyers by Washingtonian Magazine, a leading lawyer in government relations law by The Best Lawyers in America, and included on the Best Lawyers List of the Washington Post Magazine. Newsweek named him one of the 100 people to watch in the new century.
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