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Carole Rendon | |
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| United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| In office February 2016 – March 10, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Succeeded by | Justin Herdman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 8, 1962 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Education | Northwestern University B.A. Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law J.D. |
Carole Schwartz Rendon (born November 8, 1962)[1][2] is an American attorney. She served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2016 to 2018.
Early life and education
Rendon was born on November 8, 1962 in
Legal career
Rendon began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Joel Flaum on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1987 to 1988. She served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts as the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Chief from 1994 to 1997 and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Organized Crime Strike Force from 1988 to 1994. From 1997 to 1998 she was counsel in the firm of Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C.
She was a partner in the law firms of Giffen & Kaminski, LLC from 2007 to 2009; Kushner & Rendon, L.P.A. from 2003 to 2007; and Messerman & Messerman, Co., L.P.A. from 1998 to 2003.[3]
United States Attorney
She joined the office of the United States Attorney in 2009, where she served as the First Assistant United States Attorney from 2010 to 2016 after first briefly serving as Executive Assistant United States Attorney from 2009 to 2010. She served as Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio since February 2016.[3]
She was nominated to be the U.S. Attorney by President Barack Obama on May 18, 2016. Her nomination was reported from the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 30, 2016.[4] Her nomination was confirmed on July 12, 2016.[5]
In March 2017 she was asked to resign by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.[6]
References
- ^ MyLife.com profile
- ^ a b Lawyer Central profile
- ^ a b "President Obama Nominates Carole Schwartz Rendon to Serve as U.S. Attorney". May 18, 2016.
{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|archive-url=requires|url=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Results of Executive Business Meeting – June 30, 2016", Senate Judiciary Committee
- ^ PN1463 — Carole Schwartz Rendon — Department of Justice, congress.gov
- ^ Heisig, Eric (March 10, 2017). "U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon says resignation request from AG Sessions was 'unexpected'". cleveland.com. Retrieved March 26, 2018.