Eileen M. Decker Explained

Eileen M. Decker
Office:	United States Attorney for the Central District of California
President:	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Term Start:	June 29, 2015
Term End:	March 10, 2017
Predecessor:	Stephanie Yonekura (acting)
Successor:	Nicola T. Hanna
Party:	Democratic
Education:	New York University (BA, JD) Naval Postgraduate School (MA)

Eileen M. Decker is an American attorney who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California from 2015 to 2017.^{[1] [2]} Decker was nominated to join the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners in September 2018, where she became the President of the Board of Commissioners.^[3]

Decker teaches Comparative Counterterrorism Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.^[4]

Decker practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for three years before working as a US Attorney.

Education

• B.A. New York University, 1982
• J.D. New York University School of Law, 1990
• M.A. Naval Postgraduate School, 2014

See also

• 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meet the U.S. Attorney . Justice.gov . 2017-07-05 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20170130175757/https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/meet-us-attorney . 2017-01-30 .
2. News: Former Deputy Mayor Eileen Decker sworn in as U.S. attorney . LA Times . 2015-06-30 . 2017-05-30.
3. Web site: Chang . Cindy . Former U.S. Atty. Eileen Decker nominated to the Los Angeles Police Commission - Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles Times . 21 September 2018 . 22 September 2018.
4. Web site: Eileen M. Decker . School of Law . UCLA . 14 June 2020 . 28 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180328103638/https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/eileen-m-decker/ . dead .