Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Rogers joined the Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Deputy Attorney General in 1953.

Herbert Brownell, Jr. ( February 20, 1904 – May 1, 1996 ), was from 1953 to 1957 the Attorney General in the administration of U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Newcomb's daughter married Assistant US Attorney General Edward Baldwin Whitney, who was the son of Professor William Dwight Whitney and the grandson of US Senator & Connecticut Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin.

* William P. Rogers ( 1913 – 2001 ), U. S. Attorney General under Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon

The government team prosecuting Al Capone for Tax Evasion consisted of U. S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson, and his prosecutors Dwight H. Green, Samuel Clawson, Jacob Grossman and William Froelich.

In 1952, Rankin managed the Dwight Eisenhower for President campaign in Nebraska and in 1953, Eisenhower selected Rankin to serve as United States Assistant Attorney General.

Simultaneously the President announced Thursday the appointment of David L. Hackett, a special assistant to the Attorney General, as executive director of the new Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.

Former members include Mike McCurry ( press secretary under Bill Clinton ), Edwin Meese ( Attorney General under Reagan ), businessman Charles Schwab, and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

* Attorney ( England and Wales ), a person, who may be but is not necessarily a lawyer, who is authorised to act on someone else's behalf in either a business or a personal matter

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

The most authoritative opinion of the DOJ suggests that the motto refers to the Attorney General ( and thus to the Department of Justice ) " who prosecutes on behalf of justice ( or the Lady Justice )"

He was conspicuous in the Whiskey Insurrection and having been prominent in some of the meetings of the insurgents, his arrest was ordered but in the meantime before any action could be taken he appeared November 6, 1794, before Thomas McKean, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the presence of William Bradford, Attorney General of the United States, voluntarily entered into recognizance to the United States for his appearance before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States at the next special session of the Circuit Court held for the district of Pennsylvania " then and there to answer such charges of treasonable and seditious practices and such other matters of misdemeanor as shall be alleged against him in behalf of the United States and that he will not depart that court without license.

The Attorney General was the main prosecutor of the crown, expected to bring all charges on its behalf and serve as its legal advisor in any situation.

Attorney James Bopp Jr. who argued on the behalf of all three groups against the state is attempting appeals in the US Supreme Court.

On June 12, 2012, the U. S. Department of the Treasury ’ s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $ 619 million settlement with ING Bank N. V. to settle potential liability for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( IEEPA ) and the Trading with the Enemy Act ( TWEA ) and for violating New York state laws by illegally moving billions of dollars through the U. S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned Cuban and Iranian entities .. ING Bank ’ s settlement with OFAC is simultaneous with settlements with the U. S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, the Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and the New York County District Attorney ’ s Office.

Eugene R. Warren presented arguments for the appellant, Epperson, and Don Langston, an Assistant Attorney General for Arkansas, argued on behalf of the state of Arkansas.

Arguing on behalf of the state was Oregon Senior Assistant Attorney General Robert Atkinson.

The Treasury Solicitor acts on behalf of the Attorney General when representation in court is required.

Under the Law Officers Act 1997, the Solicitor General may do anything on behalf of, or in the place of, the Attorney General, and vice versa.

The book is based in part on ongoing research he has done regarding Puerto Rico's vexing political status problem since he testified as Attorney General on behalf of the first Bush administration on the issue before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the United States Senate in 1991 and for an amicus curiae brief he filed in a Puerto Rico voting rights case before the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

The Attorney General appears on behalf of Government of India in all cases ( including suits, appeals and other proceedings ) in the Supreme Court in which Government of India is concerned.

Like the Attorney General of India, the Solicitor General and the Additional Solicitors General advice the Government and appear on behalf of the Union of India in terms of the Law Officers ( Terms and Conditions ) Rules, 1972.

As Attorney General, Civiletti argued several important cases on behalf of the U. S. government.

An ASA is hired or appointed to the position by the elected State's Attorney and derives the power to act on behalf of the State in criminal prosecutions through the State's Attorney.

Under the guidance of the Attorney General of Hawai ' i, he or she also has the power to prosecute on behalf of the citizens of the state.

Section 17204 authorizes the Attorney General, district attorneys, county counsels and city attorneys to file lawsuits on behalf of injured citizens.

Vesco had wanted Attorney General John N. Mitchell to intercede on his behalf with SEC chairman William J. Casey.

Based on an ordinance authored by Supervisors Knabe and Yaroslavsky that took effect in April 2007, Fujioka directly oversees departments on behalf of the supervisors, although the Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Assessor, District Attorney, Auditor-Controller, and Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors continue to be under the direct purview of the Board of Supervisors.

As Texas State Attorney General, he argued the 1946 submerged lands ownership lawsuit United States v. California, 332 U. S. 19 before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1947, on behalf of the coastal states.

Price Daniel Sr., as Texas State Attorney General, argued the case before the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13 – 14, 1947, on behalf of all the other states.

* Authorizes only the California Attorney General or local government prosecutors to sue on behalf of general public to enforce unfair business competition laws.

When the U. S. Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he or she has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to temporarily seize a defendant's assets and prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond.

The defendant in the case was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, representing the State of Texas.

Wade, as Dallas County District Attorney, was the named defendant when attorneys Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee mounted a 1970 constitutional challenge to the Texas criminal statutes prohibiting doctors from performing abortions.

The House of Lords in Attorney General's Reference No 3 of 1994 reversed the Court of Appeal decision ( reported at ( 1996 ) 2 WLR 412 ), holding that the doctrine of transferred malice could not apply to convict an accused of murder in English law when the defendant had stabbed a pregnant woman in the face, back and abdomen.

She made a 2002 appearance on Law & Order, playing an exotic dancer in law school in the episode " Attorney Client " where she testified against another defendant ( a defense attorney ) who plotted the murder of his wife.

Attorney General Moore saw Price's death as harmful to the ongoing investigation: " If he had been a defendant, he would have been a principal defendant.

In April 2008, Jeffrey R. Stec was listed as a defendant in a lawsuit against Peak Fitness by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper.

* February 27 – Philip Barton Key, U. S. District Attorney ( b. 1818 )

In March 1888, he became Attorney General in the government of Sir Philip Fysh.

Attorney Philip Tabas of The Nature Conservancy promoted the state tax credit idea widely in the 1990s.

* Accounting scandals: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed civil fraud lawsuits against ex-WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers, Qwest Communications executives Philip Anschutz and Joseph Nacchio, Metromedia Fiber Networks chairman Stephen Garofalo, and ex-McLeod USA CEO Clark McLeod.

* Philip Van Dam, US Attorney appointed by President Gerald Ford

Altgeld's name, according to historian Philip Dray, “ is synonymous with the dawn of the Progressive era .” In 1874, he was elected District Attorney of Andrew County.

These occurrences led to a lawsuit brought by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, with prosecutors claiming that Miller and her colleague Philip Shenon had queried this Islamic charity, and another, in ways that made them aware of the planned searches.

In 1922, however, District Attorney Philip S. Van Cise bypassed the Denver police and used his own force, funded by donations solicited in secret from local citizens, to arrest 33 con men, including Blonger, and bring the ring to justice.

* Philip Baker Hall as Attorney Mark Silverberg

Roberta's older sister was Elizabeth Mary Young ( 1804 – 1859 ), who was the wife of Philip Richard Fendall II ( 1794 – 1867 ), the District Attorney of the District of Columbia.

* Former Attorney General of Australia Philip Ruddock

While the movie carries the same name as the book Thirteen Days by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, it is in fact based on a different book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.

Philip Barton Key ( April 5, 1818 – February 27, 1859 ) was a United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

As the investigation by Riley, with unethical assistance from Sanger, intensifies, they begin focusing on Deputy Attorney General Paul Gray ( Philip Bosco ).

* Philip Bosco as Deputy Attorney General Paul Gray