The President today announced his intention to nominate Stuart Michael Gerson to be Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division). He would succeed John R. Bolton.
Since 1980 Mr. Gerson has served as a member of the law firm of Epstein Becker and Green in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he served as a member of the law firm of Reed Smith Shaw and McClay, 1975 - 1980; Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1972 - 1975; and counter-intelligence officer in the United States Air Force, 1967 - 1972.
Mr. Gerson graduated from Pennsylvania State University (B.A., 1964), and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1967). He was born January 16, 1944, in New York, NY. He served in the U.S. Air Force, 1967 - 1972. He is married, has two children, and resides in Maryland.
George Bush, Nomination of Stuart Michael Gerson To Be an Assistant Attorney General Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/263369