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10. NYAG Barbara Underwood:

Replacing Schneiderman: A ‘Brilliant’ Lawyer Who Worked Behind the Scenes

Despite a life of firsts — first in her law-school class, the first woman to serve as the nation’s solicitor general and now the first to serve as New York State’s attorney general — Barbara D. Underwood has spent most of her career as a No. 2.

Working largely behind the scenes, she has served as the big-thinker-in-residence for a succession of bosses. In the 1980s, Ms. Underwood worked for the Brooklyn district attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, who recently called her “one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever met.” Ten years later, she served as a top deputy to Zachary W. Carter when he was the United States attorney in Brooklyn.

And soon enough Ms. Underwood went on to take a job as the chief lieutenant to Seth P. Waxman, the United States solicitor general under President Bill Clinton. “A thousand people asked for the job,” Mr. Waxman said. “I chose her.”

Underwood 73, has spent a decade as the office’s top appellate lawyer.
She replaces AG Eric Schneiderman.



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