Edward C. DuMont: Difference between revisions

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|birth_place = [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], [[California]], United StatesU.S.

|alma_mater = [[Yale College|Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Stanford Law School|Stanford University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])

'''Edward Carroll DuMont''' (born December 1961) is ana Americanformer lawyer[[Solicitor currentlyGeneral]] servingof asCalifornia.<ref thename="oag.ca.gov">{{cite web|url=https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-appointment-california-solicitor |title=Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Appointment of California Solicitor General &#124; State of California - Department of Justice - Kamala D. Harris Attorney General |publisher=Oag.ca.gov |date=2013-10-28 |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref> In 2010 and 2011 hadhe beenwas nominated by President [[Barack Obama]] to a seat on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit]].<ref name="WH">[httphttps://wwwobamawhitehouse.whitehousearchives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-nominates-edward-c-dumont-united-states-court-appeals-federal-circu President Obama Nominates Edward C. DuMont for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit], White House press release (April 14, 2010).</ref> In November 2011, however, DuMont sent a letter to President Obama asking him to withdraw his nomination to the judgeship.<ref name="law.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/law/sign_me_in.jsp?article=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202531041506&rss=newswire&slreturn=1 |titlelast=Qualters |publisherfirst=Sheri |title=Edward DuMont asks Obama to withdraw his nomination to Federal Circuit |date=November 9, 2011 |accessdatewebsite=law.com |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref> Obama withdrew DuMont's nomination on November 10, 2011, nominating [[Richard G. Taranto]] in DuMont's place.

Born in [[Oakland, California]], and raised in northern California, DuMont received a [[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] (''[[summa cum laude]],'' [[Phi Beta Kappa]], Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize) from [[Yale University]] in 1983, and a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from [[Stanford Law School]] in 1986. DuMont then served as a [[law clerk]] to Judge [[Richard A. Posner]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] from 1986 to 1987. After his clerkship, he was awarded a [[Henry Luce Scholar]]ship, which allowed him to spend a year working at a law firm in [[Bangkok, Thailand]].<ref name="WH"/>

== Professional careerCareer ==

DuMont spent several years as an Assistantassistant to the [[United States Solicitor General]] at that time, [[Seth Waxman]], and as an Associate[[associate Deputydeputy Attorneyattorney Generalgeneral]] in the [[United States Department of Justice]], handling issues relating to [[computer crime]], [[e-commerce]] and [[privacy]]. DuMont has argued eighteen cases before the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], and has briefed many more.<ref name="WH"/> Those cases have covered a wide range of legal issues.

DuMont joined [[WilmerHale]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wilmerhale.com/edward_dumont/ |title=WilmerHale biography of Edward C. DuMont |publisher=Wilmerhale.com |date= |accessdateaccess-date=2013-12-04 |archive-date=2013-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115091942/http://www.wilmerhale.com/edward_dumont/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== NominationFailed nomination to the Federal Circuit ===

On April 14, 2010, President [[Barack Obama]] nominated DuMont to fill the vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that was to be created by Judge [[Paul Redmond Michel]] retiring on May 31, 2010.<ref>[httphttps://wwwobamawhitehouse.whitehousearchives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-senate Presidential Nominations and Withdrawal sent to the Senate], White House press release (April 14, 2010).</ref> DuMont's nomination languished for more than 18 months without a hearing. [[NPR]] commented on the delay in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, [[Louis B. Butler]] of Wisconsin, [[Charles Bernard Day]] of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".<ref>Carrie Johnson, ''[httphttps://www.npr.org/2011/08/04/138903866/obama-gets-high-marks-for-diversifying-the-bench Obama Gets High Marks For Diversifying The Bench]'', [[NPR]] (August 4, 2011).</ref>

DuMont would have been the first [[openly gay]] [[United States courts of appeals|United States appeals court]] judge.<ref name=mw_20100416>Chris Geidner, [http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=5094 Breaking Barriers: Edward DuMont, praised by colleagues as "brilliant," would be the first openly gay federal appellate judge in the country], ''[[Metro Weekly]]'' (April 16, 2010).</ref> His partner is Newton Kendig.<ref name=advocate_20100423>Ryan Holman, [http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/04/23/President_Obama_Nominates_Gay_Man_to_Federal_Court/ Obama Nominates Gay Man to Fed. Court] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426153740/http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/04/23/President_Obama_Nominates_Gay_Man_to_Federal_Court/ |date=2010-04-26 }}, ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]'' (April 23, 2010).</ref>

The [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] never scheduled a hearing on the nomination. On November 9, 2011, the National Law Journal reported that DuMont had submitted a letter to President Obama, asking that the president withdraw his nomination.<ref name="law.com"/> Obama did so on November 10, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://wwwobamawhitehouse.whitehousearchives.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/10/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawl-sent-senate |title=Presidential Nominations and Withdrawl &#91;sic&#93; Sent to the Senate &#124; The White House |publisher=Whitehouse.gov |date=2011-11-10 |accessdatevia=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref>

=== California Solicitor General ===

After his failed Federal Circuitjudicial nomination, DuMont remained at WilmerHale. Then, onOn October 28, 2013, California Attorney General [[Kamala Harris]] appointed DuMont to be California's solicitor general, serving as the chief appellate lawyer for the [[California Department of Justice]].<ref name="oag.ca.gov"/> DuMont stepped down effective August 19, 2019.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

*[http://www.wilmerhale.com/edward_dumont/ WilmerHale biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115091942/http://www.wilmerhale.com/edward_dumont/ |date=2013-11-15 }} of Edward C. DuMont

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