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Who Is Ron Klain?
Ron Klain(Ronald Alan Klain) is an American attorney, political consultant, and also a former lobbyist serving as White House chief of staff under President, Al Gore since 1995-1999 and also Biden since 2009-2011.
From 2014-2015 President Obama appointed Ron to serve as White House Ebola Response coordinator after announced Ebola virus cases in the United States. The whole of 2020 Ron worked as a senior advisor to Biden’s presidential campaign. On November 12th when Biden’s victory was announced, Ron serves the White House as chief of staff.
Career
He started his career as legislative director for US Representative Ed Marky (D-MA) from 1983 to 1984. Ron also served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Byron White during the 1987 and 1988 terms. Furthermore, in 1989, Ron served as Chief Counsel to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and also overseeing the legal staff’s work on matters of constitutional law, criminal law, antitrust as well as Supreme Court nominations, which including 1991, Senator Tom Daschle appointed him the staff Director of Senate Democratic Leadership Committee, and was ended on 1992.
In 1992 he joined the Clinton-Gore campaign and was involved in both presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton. Ron also oversaw Clinton’s judicial selection efforts and leading the team that won confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Furthermore, Ron became a Chief of Staff, in 1994 and also a Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno and Chief of Staff to Al Gore in 1995. He was also registered as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae until 2005.
Ron worked as an adviser to Wesley Clark when Clark run for president, during the early primaries of the 2004 presidential campaign. Furthermore, he served as an informal to Evan Bay who is from Ron’s home state of Indiana. He later left his partnership at O’Melveny and Myers to Become Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Revolution LLC, which is a technology Venture capital firm launched, by AOL co-founder Steve Case in 2005. From the time he was appointed as Ebola response coordinator in October 2014, Ron was General Counsel at Revolution LLC and President of Case Holdings.
How Old is Ron Klain’s
He was born on August 8, 1961, currently, he is 59 years old
Ron Klain’s Family
Who are Ron Klain’s parents?
He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Stanley Klain and Sarann Warner. his father was a building contractor while his mother was a travel agent.
Does Ron Klain’s have siblings?
Ron has managed to keep information about his parents more private.
Ron Klain’s Education
He attended North Central High School and graduated in 1979. After that, he attended Georgetown University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude in 1983. He went further and studied Law at Havard Law School where he graduated with Juris Doctor in 1987.
Ron Klain’s Wife
Klain is happily married to Monica Medina an attorney, consultant, and co-founder of Our Daily Planet, an environmental news platform.
Ron Klain’s Kids
The couple has been blessed with three kids, Hannah, Michael, and Daniel. Hannah is an Equal Justice Work Fellow in the Democracy Program, focusing on documentary and combatting discriminatory electoral resource allocation. While at Havard Law School she was the campus President.
Working with Obama’s Administration
In 2008 Ron was among the people who assisted Barack Obama during his preparation for the United States presidential debates. Later on November 12th, 2008, Roll Call announced that Ron had been appointed to serve as Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden, the same role he served for Gore. He worked hand in hand with Biden and served as counsel to the United State Senate Committee on the Judiciary while Biden chaired the committee and also assisted Biden’s speechwriting team during the 1988 presidential campaign.
In January 2011 he opted to leave the White House for a position in the private sector after he was mentioned as a possible replacement for White House of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Concerns about the viability of the now-defunct solar-panel firm Solyndra prompted Ron to accept an Obama visit in 2011, saying, “The fact is that if POTUS visited 10 such places during the next 10 months, perhaps a couple would be belly-up by election day 2012.”
Furthermore, Ron was appointed the “Ebola response coordinator” on October 17, 2014, also known as the “Ebola czar. About fact that Ron has “no record or expertise in Ebola directly or public health in general,” according to Julie Hirschfeld Davis of The New York Times, Ezra Klein lauded the option for his bureaucratic familiarity in coordinating agencies.
Moreover, in February 2015, his tenure as Ebola response coordinator came to an end. Ron served as an external advisor to the Skoll Foundation Global Threats Fund, and also as an Executive Vice President and General Counsel at the investment bank Revolution LLC since leaving the Obama administration. After President-elect Joe Biden was announced, Ron was appointed to be White House Chief of Staff on November 11th, 2020.
Ron Klain’s Height
He stands at an average height of 5ft and 7 inches
Ron Klain’s Net Worth
He has been a successful lawyer, where he has managed to garner an estimated net worth of about $ 22 million.
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