Richard Danzig | |
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| United States Secretary of the Navy | |
| In office November 16, 1998 – January 20, 2001 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Dalton |
| Succeeded by | Robert Pirie (Acting) |
| Under Secretary of the Navy | |
| In office November 29, 1993 – May 30, 1997 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Daniel Howard |
| Succeeded by | Jerry Hultin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1944-09-08)September 8, 1944 (age 81) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Andrea Danzig |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Reed College (BA) Yale University (JD) Magdalen College, Oxford (BPhil,DPhil) |
Richard Jeffrey Danzig (born September 8, 1944) is an Americanpolitician andlawyer who served as the 71stSecretary of the Navy under PresidentBill Clinton. He served as an advisor of thePresidentBarack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the chairman of the national security think-tank, theCenter for a New American Security.
Danzig was born inNew York City in 1944, and attended theBronx High School of Science, graduating in 1961. He received a B.A. degree in 1965 fromReed College, a J.D. degree in 1971 fromYale Law School, and a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1967 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1968 fromMagdalen College atOxford University, where he was aRhodes Scholar. Upon his graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk toUnited States Supreme Court JusticeByron White.[1][2]
Between 1972 and 1977, Danzig taught contract law atStanford andHarvard Universities. He was awarded a Prize Fellowship of theHarvard Society of Fellows, and aRockefeller Foundation Fellowship. From 1977 to 1981, he served in theOffice of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary and then as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics. In 1981, he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award.
Between 1977 and 1981, Danzig served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and then as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics.
From 1981 to 1993, Danzig was a partner in theWashington, D.C., office of the international law firmLatham & Watkins. He served as deputy chair of the firm's International Practice Group, and also as director of its Japan Group. He was also a director of theNational Semiconductor Corporation, a trustee of Reed College, and interim director of litigation and then vice chairman of theInternational Human Rights Law Group. During this time, Danzig was co-author, with the distinguished policy analyst Peter Szanton, of the book,National Service: What Would It Mean? A decade before, Szanton had been head of the New York City-RAND Institute, a joint venture of the City and the RAND Corporation when Danzig came to that office as a law student. The book which Danzig and Szanton co-authored helped shape America's current civilian National Service system.[3]
Danzig served as the Under Secretary of the Navy from November 1993 to May 1997. In 1994, Danzig was elected as a fellow in theNational Academy of Public Administration.[4] Later he was sworn in as the 71st Secretary of the Navy on November 16, 1998. In the period between these two jobs, he and his wife, Andrea, lived in Asia and Europe while Danzig served as a Traveling Fellow of the Center for International Political Economy and as an adjunct professor atSyracuse University'sMaxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.[3]
In 2007 and 2008, Danzig worked for Senator Obama's campaign as an advisor on national security issues.[2]
Danzig has been a director of National Semiconductor Corporation and Human Genome Sciences Corporation.[2]
In 2014, Danzig delivered the fifth Sloan Foundation Cyber Security Lecture at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, based on his publication "Surviving on a Diet of Poisoned Fruit: Reducing the National Security Risks of America's Cyber Dependencies".[5]
He is currently chairman of the board of directors of theCenter for a New American Security, an independent think tank. He is also a member of theDefense Policy Board, a federal advisory committee to the United States Department of Defense, and is a senior fellow at theJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.[6] Danzig also served as a member of theHomeland Security Advisory Council.[7] but resigned on July 18, 2018, overimmigration decisions to separate families.[8]
Danzig and his wife Andrea live inWashington, D.C., and have two adult children, David and Lisa.
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| Preceded by | Under Secretary of the Navy 1993–1997 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Secretary of the Navy 1998–2001 | Succeeded by Robert Pirie Acting |
