Ted Olson
Ted Olson American political figure, who served as the 42ed Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated to the position of Solicitor General in February 20001, by President George W. Bush, and took the oath of office in June 2001, after Senate confirmation. He is a Fellow at the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Olson is rumored to be the likely replacement for resined attorney General Alberto Gonzales.[1]
Olson was born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated in California. He attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he was top of his class throughout his tenure. After receiving his bachelor's degree, Olson attended the University of California at Berkley where he became a member of the California Law Review and eventually received his law degree.
From 1981 to 1984, under President Ronald Reagan, Olson served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Council. Before and after his work in the Assistant Attorney General he worked in the Washington, D.C. for a legal organization based in Los Angeles, Dunn & Cruther, where he practiced constitutional, media commercial and appellate litigation. Through his work with Dunn & Cruther , Olson brought numerous cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. These cases included issues concerning telecommunications, federal securities regulation, federal statutory issues regarding copyright, antitrust, the environment, school vouchers, the internet, the 2000 census, property rights, punitive damages, criminal law, immigration, the right to a jury trial, due process, equal protection, separation of powers, voting rights, the ex post facto clause, the speech, press and religion clauses of the First Amendment, the powers of the President, and the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law.
During the dispute in 2000 Presidential election, Olson successfully represented George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the Supreme Court Bush v. Gore .