AG Gonzales is gone
Alberto Gonzales will be sorely missed. Our federal government needs more quality, qualified individuals to lead us in the right direction.
Alberto Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is an American jurist who is the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel, and subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas and then on the Texas Supreme Court. From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel.[1]
On August 27, 2007 Gonzales announced his resignation as Attorney General, effective September 17, 2007.[2] He did not announce the reasons for his resignation. He is the highest-ranking Hispanic in the federal government to date.
An honors student at MacArthur High School in unincorporated Harris County, Gonzales enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1973, for a four year term of enlistment, serving two years at Fort Yukon, Alaska and two years as a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy. Prior to beginning his third year at the academy, which would have caused him to incur a further service obligation, he transferred to Rice University (Houston, Texas), where he was a member of Lovett College and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1979, impressing the long-time faculty there as an excellent student.[5] He then earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1982.