Which president of the United States first appointed a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law as Secretary of State of the United States ?
UC Berkeley School of Law The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, commonly referred to as Berkeley Law and Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the nation. The law school has produced leaders in law, government, and society, including Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, Secretary of State of the United States Dean Rusk, Attorney General of the United States Edwin Meese, United States Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Federal Reserve G. William Miller, Solicitor General of the United States Theodore Olson, and lead litigator of the "Korematsu v. United States" civil rights case, Dale Minami.
Cliff Sloan Clifford Sloan is the former Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the U.S. State Department. Previously, Sloan was the publisher of "Slate" magazine. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. During his time at Harvard Law, Sloan assisted Alan Dershowitz with the famous Claus von Bülow murder case with his classmate and friend Eliot Spitzer. In the 1990 movie Reversal of Fortune about the case, Sloan and Spitzer are played by Felicity Huffman and Annabella Sciorra. After his time at Harvard Law, he served as a Supreme Court clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. He also was Vice President of Business Affairs and general counsel at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, where he was responsible for developing strategic partnerships and managing WPNI's legal affairs. Additionally, Sloan served as Associate White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. He is married to Mary Lou Hartman, former Director of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship program.