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17. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Noel Francisco

1. Noel John Francisco was raised in Oswego, New York.

2. He played trombone in his high school's symphonic band.

3. He received a B.A. in economics with honors in 1991 from the University of Chicago. He earned his J.D. with high honors from the same university in 1996.

4. Francisco would be the first Asian-American to serve as a solicitor general, if confirmed by the Senate.

5. He was among the lawyers representing George W. Bush in the Florida recount during the 2000 presidential election. Ted Cruz, now a Republican senator from Texas, and John Roberts, now chief justice of the United States, were also part of the legal team.

6. Francisco was a clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia during the 1997 term.

7. Francisco served as associate counsel to then-President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. He then served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel until 2005.

8. Francisco may be best known as Robert McDonnell’s lawyer. He represented the former Virginia governor when the Supreme Court overturned McDonnell’s conviction on corruption charges in 2016.

9. Francisco most recently worked at the Jones Day law firm in the nation's capital, where he worked with now-White House counsel Donald McGahn.

10. Francisco is on the board of directors of the Lumen Christi Institute, founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-03-13/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-noel-francisco