Nomination of Douglas W. Kmiec To Be an Assistant Attorney General

The President today announced his intention to nominate Douglas W. Kmiec to be an Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel) at the Department of Justice. He would succeed Charles J. Cooper. Since 1988 Mr. Kmiec has been Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel). Prior to this he was a professor of law and director of Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government at the University of Notre Dame, 1987-1988. From 1985 to 1987, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel). He served as Special Assistant to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1982-1983.

Mr. Kmiec graduated from Northwestern University (B.A., 1973) and the University of Southern California (J.D., 1976). He was born September 24, 1951, in Chicago, IL. Mr. Kmiec is married, has three children, and resides in Granger, IN.