Steve Engel is an American attorney who was previously the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration.
Steven Andrew Engel was born on June 29, 1974, in New Hyde Park, New York, a Long Island suburb of New York City, United States. However, he was raised in Port Washington, New York.
Steve Engel graduated as valedictorian from Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in 1992. He then obtained a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1996. He was awarded a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2000 and had been a Knox Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1996 to 1997.
Steve Engel practised law at Kirkland & Ellis from 2002 through 2006. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration from 2006 to 2009. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and confirmed on November 7, 2017.
Steve Engel then served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration.
Is the former Department of Justice attorney married?
Yes, Steve Engel is a married man. He tied the knot with Susan Kearns in 2004, in an official wedding ceremony at the Larchmont Yacht Club. Their wedding was officiated by Judge John G. Koeltl of the Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Kearns is the daughter of Elsie R. Kearns and Thomas M. Kearns of Larchmont, New York. Susan Kearns graduated summa cum laude from Duke and received her law degree from New York University.
Susan Kearns met Engel in 2000 when they were both 29 years old. The two were both were law clerks for Judge Kozinski and then clerks in 2001 at the Supreme Court. Susan Kearns has also worked for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.