President Obama nominated Christopher H. Schroeder to serve as Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy on June 4, 2009.  He was confirmed by the United States Senate, April 21, 2010.

In 1996-7, Mr. Schroeder served as Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel under President Clinton.  Prior to that, he held several staff positions with the Senate Judiciary Committee, including the position of Chief Counsel in 1992-93.

Prior to becoming Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Schroeder was the Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Director of the Public Law Program at Duke University. His scholarship focuses on issues in environmental law and constitutional law.  He has co-authored Keeping Faith with the Constitution (2010), with Goodwin Liu and Pamela Karlan, as well as Presidential Power Stories (2009) with Curtis Bradley. 

Mr. Schroeder received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1968, his M. Div. from Yale University in 1971, and his J.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1974, where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review.  After graduation, he practiced law in the San Francisco area before moving to Durham, North Carolina in 1979 with his family.  He is married to Katharine T. Bartlett, the A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, and former dean of Duke Law School.  They have three children, Emily, Theodore and Elizabeth.