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Fascinating account of how new US Attorney got her job

By Douglas A. Berman

The Detroit Free Press has this really interesting article about a new Michigan US Attorney. The piece is headlined "McQuade's plan for revamping office won her the U.S. attorney post," and here are excerpts: B Barbara McQuade remembers the day she made up her mind to become the next U.S. attorney in Detroit. ?It was the day I didn?t get the criminal chief job? in 2008, McQuade told the Free Press. Disappointed that she hadn?t landed one of the office?s top leadership posts ? yet confident that she had the skills to run the federal government?s 108-member law firm in Detroit ? McQuade, then 43, spent the next two years canvassing judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers and community leaders to assess the performance of the U.S. Attorney?s Office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 14, 2010 (boomark / email).