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Kathy Ruemmler, a former White House Counsel under President Barack Obama and current Chief Legal Officer at Goldman Sachs, recently came into the spotlight following the release of emails exchanged with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
According to CNN, the emails included a 2015 birthday greeting from Ruemmler and a sexually explicit, unsolicited reply from Epstein, which she promptly ridiculed before exiting the exchange.
While the correspondence drew attention, Ruemmler’s team emphasized her involvement was limited to the greeting and her response, and she had only given Epstein occasional legal advice.
Kathy Ruemmler: Early life and education
Ruemmler grew up in Richland, Washington, and graduated from Richland High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Legal career
Ruemmler began her legal career clerking for Judge Timothy K. Lewis on the Third Circuit (1996–1997). She then served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton (2000–2001) and as a federal prosecutor (2001–2007), working as an Assistant US Attorney in D.C. and as deputy director of the DOJ’s Enron Task Force.
Returning to private practice in 2007, she became a partner at Latham & Watkins, co-chairing its white-collar defense group before joining the Obama administration in 2009 as principal associate deputy attorney general.
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