Bill Lee | |||||||||||
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Assistant United States Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division | |||||||||||
In office December 15, 1997 – January 20, 2001 Acting: December 15, 1997 – August 4, 2000 | |||||||||||
President | Bill Clinton | ||||||||||
Preceded by | Deval Patrick | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ralph Boyd | ||||||||||
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | February 5, 1949||||||||||
Political party | Democratic | ||||||||||
Spouse | Carolyn Yee | ||||||||||
Children | 3 | ||||||||||
Education | Yale University (BA) Columbia University (JD) | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Chinese | 李亮畴[1] | ||||||||||
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Bill Lann Lee (born February 5, 1949) is an American civil rights attorney who served as Assistant United States Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton.[2]