Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.

Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
File:Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.jpg Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Incumbent
Assumed office September 20, 2013
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Jim Letten
Personal details
Born	1976 (age 47–48) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University A.B. Georgetown University Law Center J.D.
Profession	Attorney

Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. (born 1976) is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Biography

Polite was born in 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended De La Salle High School in New Orleans. He received an artium baccalaureus degree in 1997 from Harvard University. He received a Juris Doctorate in 2000 from Georgetown University Law Center. He served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 2001 to 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he served as an associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he was a shareholder at the law firm of Liskow & Lewis in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he headed the firm's White Collar Crime Defense Group.

United States Attorney

On June 27, 2013, President Obama nominated Polite to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana for a term of four years, the office having been vacated by Jim Letten, who resigned on December 11, 2012. His nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 12, 2013, by voice vote. On September 17, 2013, his nomination was confirmed by unanimous consent. He received his commission on September 20, 2013, and took the oath of office the same day.