in 2005, and Michigan Technological University in 2008. After earning his Juris Doctor, Levin was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan. He entered private practice as a lawyer for Grossman, Hyman and Grossman and taught law at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit Mercy. Levin served as General Counsel for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1964 to 1967, where he helped form the Detroit Public Defender's Office and led the Appellate Division of that office, which has become the State Appellate Defender's Office. He served as a special assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan and chief appellate defender for the city of Detroit from 1968 to 1969. Detroit City Council Levin was elected to the Detroit City Council (known then as the Detroit Common Council) in 1969, serving two four-year terms from 1970 to 1977. Levin served as president of the City Council throughout his entire second term, until the end of his tenure. During his time as council president, Levin became so frustrated with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's handling of repossessed houses in Detroit (leading neighborhoods to suffer from significant urban decay), that he and other members of the council, went out with a bulldozer "to help raze some of the houses." He was close to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, the city's first African-American Mayor, and was described by Forbes as Mayor Young's "right hand man." During his time on the City Council, Levin practiced law part-time, working as a counsel for the Schlussel, Lifton, Simon, Rands and Kaufman law firm from 1971 to 1973. He later served as the general counsel at Jaffe, Snider, Raitt, Garratt and Heuer, from 1978 to 1979. United States Senate Levin was elected to the United States Senate in 1978, defeating incumbent Republican Senator Robert P. Griffin. Committee assignments Committee on Armed Services (chairman) As chairman of the full committee, Sen. Levin served as an ex officio member of all subcommittees Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia (chair) Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (chair) Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Select Committee on Intelligence Legislation sponsored Levin was the sponsor of 51 bills that became law. Political positions Armed services Levin chaired the Armed Services Committee from