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Steve Engel: Who is the former Department of Justice attorney?

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Steve Engel is an American attorney who was previously the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration.

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UNITED STATES – DECEMBER 11: Steven Engel, deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, listens during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. The Senate panel discussed the legal rights of detainees held at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Steven Andrew Engel was born on June 29, 1974, in New Hyde Park, New York, a Long Island suburb of New York City, United States. However, he was raised in Port Washington, New York.

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Steve Engel graduated as valedictorian from Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in 1992. He then obtained a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1996. He was awarded a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2000 and had been a Knox Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1996 to 1997.

Steve Engel practised law at Kirkland & Ellis from 2002 through 2006. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration from 2006 to 2009. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and confirmed on November 7, 2017.

Steve Engel then served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration.

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