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Michael Bernard Mukasey〔 〕 (;〔 See (inogolo:pronunciation of Michael Mukasey ). 〕 born July 28, 1941)〔 〕 is a lawyer and former judge who served as the 81st Attorney General of the United States. Mukasey, an American lawyer, was appointed following the resignation of Alberto Gonzales. Mukasey also served for 18 years as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, six of those years as Chief Judge. He is the recipient of several awards, most notably the ''Learned Hand Medal'' of the Federal Bar Council.〔 〕 Mukasey was the second Jewish U.S. Attorney General.〔 The first Jewish Attorney General was Edward H. Levi. Judah Benjamin served as Attorney General of the Confederate States of America. 〕 Mukasey is a partner at the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Debevoise & Plimpton )〕 ==Personal background== Michael Mukasey's father was born near Baranavichy in Belarus (then in Russian Empire) and emigrated to the U.S. in 1921.〔 〕〔 〕 Michael Mukasey was born in the Bronx in 1941.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judges of the United States Courts ) 〕 Mukasey graduated in 1959 from the Ramaz School, a Modern Orthodox Jewish prep school in Manhattan. His wife, Susan, was later a teacher and headmistress of the lower school at Ramaz, and both of their children (Marc and Jessica)〔 〕 attended the school.〔 Heller, Jamie. ("Mukasey's Pedigree" ), ''The Wall Street Journal'' Online, Law Blog, September 17, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2007. "Mukasey graduated from Ramaz in 1959 and went on to Columbia College and Yale Law School." 〕 As an undergraduate student, Mukasey was the editorials editor of the ''Columbia Daily Spectator''〔 〕 at Columbia University, where he received his B.A. in 1963, majoring in anthropology. At Yale Law School he received his law degree in 1967. Mukasey practiced law for 20 years in New York City, serving for four years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York〔 〕 in which he worked with Rudolph Giuliani. In 1976, he joined the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, to which he returned after retirement from the U.S. District Court.〔 Mukasey began teaching at Columbia Law School in the Spring of 1993 and has taught there every spring semester since.〔 〕 Mukasey's son Marc L. Mukasey, as of 2007, leads the white-collar criminal defense practice in the New York office of Bracewell & Giuliani.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】Marc L. Mukasey )〕 The Mukaseys have a professional relationship with Rudy Giuliani; Mukasey and son were also justice advisers to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.〔 〕 Mukasey administered the oath of office to Mayor-elect Giuliani in 1994 and 1998.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Mukasey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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