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Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division - Tony West

Assistant Attorney General Tony West was confirmed on April 20, 2009.  A hearing to consider his nomination was held on March 10, 2009.  An archived webcast is available.  icon_webcastOn March 26, 2009, the Judiciary Committee ordered the nomination reported to the Senate for consideration. 

A transcript of the hearing, including the Committee Questionnaire, responses to questions submitted for the record, and letters received in connection with the nomination, is available through the Government Printing Office.  Attachments to the Committee Questionnaire are available upon request.

Letters Received in Connection with the Nomination

  • March 17, 2009 - South Asian Bar Association
  • March 10, 2009 - Anne Eshoo, U.S. Congresswoman, California
  • March 9, 2009 - Timothy Alan Simon, Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission, State of California
  • March 9, 2009 - Zoe Lofgren, U.S. Congresswoman, California
  • March 9, 2009 - Bill Lann Lee, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C., former Assistant Attorney General
  • March 9, 2009 - Jamie S. Gorelick, WilmerHale, former Deputy Attorney General
  • March 9, 2009 - Karen Bass, Speaker of the Assembly, State of California
  • March 9, 2009 - Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter
  • March 9, 2009 - Phil Angelides, former State Treasurer, California
  • March 8, 2009 - Drew S. Days III, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law, Yale Law School; former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division; former U.S. Solicitor General
  • March 7, 2009 - Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Mayor, City of Los Angeles, California
  • March 7, 2009 - George M. Sundheim
  • March 7, 2009 - Crime Victims United of California Chapter
  • March 6, 2009 - National Black Police Association, Inc.
  • March 6, 2009 - Norman Mineta, Vice Chairman, Hill & Knowlton; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
  • March 6, 2009 - Philip B. Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Director of Center for International Criminal Justice, Harvard Law School; former Deputy Attorney General
  • March 6, 2009 - Equal Justice Society
  • March 6, 2009 - Michael Dukakis, UCLA Department of Public Policy, former Governor, State of Massachusetts
  • March 6, 2009 - Charles Houston Bar Association
  • March 6, 2009 - Sandre R. Swanson, Assemblymember, State of California
  • March 5, 2009 - Nell Jessup Newton, Chancellor and Dean, University of California Hastings College of Law
  • March 5, 2009 - National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
  • March 5, 2009 - National Bar Association
  • March 5, 2009 - Tom McEnery, former Mayor, San Jose, California
  • March 5, 2009 - Bill Lockyer, Treasurer, State of California; former Attorney General, State of California
  • March 5, 2009 - John Keker, Keker & Van Nest LLP
  • March 5, 2009 - California Police Chiefs Association
  • March 5, 2009 - Willie L. Brown, Jr., former Mayor, San Francisco, California
  • March 5, 2009 - Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, State of California
  • March 5, 2009 - Barbara Allen Babcock, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford Law School; former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division
  • March 5, 2009 - Christopher Arriola
  • March 4, 2009 - Louise Renne, Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP
  • March 4, 2009 - Chuck Reed, Mayor, City of San Jose, California
  • March 4, 2009 - Major Cities Chiefs Association
  • March 3, 2009 - Seth P. Waxman, WilmerHale, former Solicitor General
  • March 3, 2009 - John Russo, City Attorney, City of Oakland
  • March 3, 2009 - Janet Reno, former Attorney General
  • March 3, 2009 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • March 3, 2009 - Shirley Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster LLP; former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; former U.S. Secretary of Education
  • March 3, 2009 - James Brosnahan, Morrison Foerster
  • March 1, 2009 - David N. Kelley, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP; former U.S. Attorney
  • February 26, 2009 - Raymond C. Marshall, Bingham McCutchen
  • February 26, 2009 - Congressional Black Caucus
  • February 25, 2009 - Beth Brinkman, Morrison Foerster, former Assistant to the Solicitor General
  • February 24, 2009 - David Bayless, Convington & Burling LLP, former Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Chief
  • February 23, 2009 - The Honorable Edward A. Infante, United States Magistrate, Ret.
  • February 19, 2009 - Randy I. Bellows, Circuit Court Judge, Fairfax County, Virginia; former Assistant U.S. Attorney
  • February 18, 2009 - Keith Wetmore, Chair, Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • February 18, 2009 - Bar Association of San Francisco

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Did You Know?  The longest serving members in the history of the Senate have served on the Judiciary Committee: Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia served as Senator from Jan. 3, 1959, until June 28, 2010, and served on the Committee from Jan. 14, 2969, until Jan. 3, 1980; Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina served as Senator from Dec. 24, 1954, until April 4, 1956, and from Nov. 7, 1956, until Jan. 3, 2003, and served on the Committee from Jan. 16, 1967, until Jan. 3, 2003; and Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts served as Senator From Nov. 7, 1962, until Aug. 25., 2009, and served on the Committee from Feb. 15, 1963, until Jan. 21, 2009.

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