Jay B. Stephens (born November 5, 1946) is an American lawyer who served as Attorney General's Attorney General George W. Bush.
Stephens grew up in cattle and wheat farms in northwestern Iowa. He graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and Harvard Law School in 1973. After law school, he spent a year as an associate in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and later served as a special assistant attorney on the Watergate prosecutor team from 1974 to 1975. From 1976 to 1977, he was the associate general advisor at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. He then spent four years as a US Attorney Assistant in Washington, D.C., before moving to the Justice Department, where he served in various capacities from 1981 to 1986. In 1986, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the White House.
In 1988, Stephens was nominated and confirmed as US Attorney for the District of Columbia. He served in that position through the end of George H.W. The Bush administration, overseeing the start of the prosecution of Representative Dan Rostenkowski. On March 24, 1993, Bill Clinton's new Attorney General, Janet Reno, demanded the resignation of all US lawyers, a routine step when a new government took power; Stephens advised Reno to try to block Rostenkowski's investigation, a Democrat, but prosecution continued under his successors and Rostenkowski pleaded guilty in 1994. After resigning, Stephens became a partner in the D.C. office. From Pillsbury, Madison & amp; Sutro. From 1997 to 2001, he was the Corporate Vice President and Vice General Counsel for Honeywell.
When George W. Bush became President, he nominated Stephens to be the US Attorney General, and the Senate confirmed him on 8 November 2001. On September 27, 2002, he announced his resignation, effective October 7, to become Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Raytheon. He left Raytheon in 2015 and is currently an adviser at Kirkland & amp; Ellis.
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