Daniel Marcus

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Person.png Daniel Marcus  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer)
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BornJanuary 5, 1941
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityUS
Alma materBrandeis University, Yale Law School
Member of9-11/Commission
Lawyer who was General Counsel of the 9-11 Commission.

Daniel Marcus is an American lawyer[1] and member of the faculty of The Washington College of Law, American University.[2] He was General Counsel of the 9-11 Commission.

Education

Born in Brooklyn, Marcus graduated from Brandeis University in 1962. He also received an LL.B. in 1965 from Yale Law School, and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Career

Marcus began his career as a law clerk for Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[3] He was a partner at the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering for many years, before leaving to become Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and then General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture in the Carter Administration.[4][5]

Marcus returned to the law firm until 1998, when he entered the White House Counsel's office as Senior Counsel.[6] Marcus then worked at the Department of Justice,[7][8] where he held several positions, including Associate Attorney General.

After the expiration of the Clinton Administration, Marcus was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and General Counsel of the 9-11 Commission.[9][10][11] He subsequently joined the faculty of The American University Washington College of Law,[12][13] where he continued to write and speak about legal issues in American politics.[14][15][16]


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