Ted Cruz

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R. Ted Cruz (born 1970) was the Solicitor General of the State of Texas in the United States until May, 2008. He was appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in January 2003, and served as the chief appellate lawyer for the state. He left the post to join the private law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius on May 12, 2008.^[1]

Prior to his appointment he was Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, as Domestic Policy Advisor to President of the United States George W. Bush on the Bush-Cheney campaign, and as a law clerk to first J. Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit and secondly William Rehnquist, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Contents 1 Education 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Education

Cruz is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. While in university, he was one of North America's top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at the 1992 North American Debating Championship and a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.

He also attended Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas.

[edit] See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Texas Review of Law and Politics bio
• Announcement of his departure as Solicitor General
• Announcement of his departure from the FTC
• Announcement of engagement as keynote speaker for 2007 UC Berkeley Political Science Commencement
• Article published January 16, 2006 in Austin American-Statesman
• Profile of Cruz in Texas Bar Journal, vol. 69, no. 7