John G. Levi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation
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Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
About John G. Levi
- John G.
- Levi is the current Board Chair of the Legal Services Corporation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- He was nominated to serve on the Board by President Barack Obama on August 6, 2009, and his nomination was confirmed by the U.S.
- Senate on March 19, 2010.
- He was elected Chairman of the LSC Board by his fellow Board members on April 7, 2010.Levi, a partner at Sidley Austin, played a pivotal role in Obama's younger days.
- The president and wife Michelle Obama met each other for the first time after Levi hired them in 1989 to work at the Chicago law firm.
- Newton N.
- Minow describes his and Levi's role in bringing the two together: "My daughter Martha called to say that one of her best students, Barack Obama, wanted to spend the summer as a law firm associate in Chicago," said Minow, referring to his daughter, law professor Martha Minow.
- "I called our partner John Levi, who heads our recruiting for the firm, and suggested this; John laughed and told me that he had already heard about Barack and had already hired him." Levi was born in Chicago, Illinois.
- His father was Edward H.
- Levi, a former president of the University of Chicago and United States Attorney General under President Gerald R.
- Ford.
- He received an undergraduate degree from University of Rochester with honors in 1969.
- He received his law degree in 1972 from Harvard Law School, and an LLM from Harvard in 1973.
- His brother, David F.
- Levi, is the 14th Dean of Duke Law School.
- His cousin Daniel Meltzer is a former White House Counsel.
- His brother, Michael, is a scientist in both particle physics and cosmology at the Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory in Berkeley.
- His eldest son, Ben Levi, is the founder of legal technology startup, InCloudCounsel.
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