Who are Merrick Garland’s children?
JUDGE Merrick Garland, is known as an American attorney and jurist who is currently serving as the 86th United States attorney general.
Outside of politics, Garland is known for his decades long marriage to Lynn Garland.
Who are Merrick Garland’s children?
Garland, 68, and Lynn, 59, have two daughters together, Jessica and Rebecca.
The two women grew up with their parents in $2.1million home in Bethesda, Maryland.
After high school, they both went on to attend Yale University, where they were standouts academically.
Jessica was co-president of the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project. According to the website, the organization’s mission is that it aims, “to challenge the inequities of the criminal justice system through educational programs and advocacy, while learning from and supporting others who share that vision.”
She went on to attend Cambridge for grad school.
Rebecca graduated from Yale with a degree in psychology before attending Harvard Business School to get a Master’s of Business Administration.
According to her LinkedIn, she works as a regional operations director for DaVita Kidney Care.
When Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama in 2016, Rebecca had no idea, reported The Guardian at the time.
The former president tried to call Rebecca to relay the news, but she was on a hike and had no cell phone service.
Garland jokingly said, “I only wish we hadn’t taught our daughter to be so adventurous that she would be out of cell service range when the president called.”
Who is Merrick Garland married to?
Garland is married to Lynn Garland married in 1987 at the Harvard Club in New York.
Prior to that she attended Harvard University before going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management where she got her Master’s of Science in operations management.
Lynn is known as the granddaughter of Samuel Irving Rosenman, who served as a justice on the New York Supreme Court.
He also was a special counsel to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
Of his family, Garland once said, “they tell you in Washington that if you want a friend get a dog. Harry Truman said that. That is not true. Get a family.
“This is a hard place to be. No matter how much honor you have, people will attack you one way or the other. And the principle solace that you get is from your family.
“Because they’re behind you no matter what happens. So never forget about that. Whatever interests you have in your career, you have to balance it with a deep relationship with your family.”
Was Merrick Garland appointed to Biden’s cabinet?
Garland has served as a US circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997.
On March 10, 2021, he was then confirmed as Joe Biden’s new US Attorney General.
The bipartisan vote came almost five years to the day Garland was nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Barack Obama after Justice Antonin Scalia died. At the time, Republican-controlled Senate led by Mitch McConnell refused to even consider Garland’s nomination and the seat was eventually filled by Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated by President Donald Trump.
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