Who is Merrick Garland?
Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who will be the 86th Attorney General of the United States beginning in March 2021. From 1997 to 2021, he was a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Garland, a native of the Chicago area, received his undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University. After clerking for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., he worked as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice, where he played a key role in the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers. President Bill Clinton appointed Garland to the D.C. Circuit in March 1997, and he served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020.
Merrick Brian Garland was born in Chicago on November 13, 1952. He grew up in Lincolnwood, a northern Chicago suburb. Shirley (née Horwitz; 1925-2016) was the director of volunteer services at the Council for Jewish Elderly in Chicago (now called CJE SeniorLife). Cyril Garland (1915-2000), his father, ran Garland Advertising, a small business out of the family home. Garland was raised as a Conservative Jew, his surname having been changed from Garfinkel several generations before. In the early twentieth century, his grandparents fled the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, fleeing antisemitic pogroms and seeking a better life for their children in the United States. His grandmother’s two siblings were later murdered during the Holocaust. He is the second cousin of former Ambassador to China and six-term Iowa Governor Terry Branstad.
Merrick Garland Net worth
Merrick Garland is estimated to be worth $20 million.
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