Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Robert Mueller, the former director of the FBI and former special counsel for the United States Department of Justice.
Birth place: New York,New York
Birth name: Robert Swan Mueller III
Father: Robert Swan Mueller Jr., business executive
Mother: Alice (Truesdale) Mueller
Marriage: Ann (Standish) Mueller (1966-present)
Children: Melissa and Cynthia
Education: Princeton University, B. A., 1966; New York University, M. A., 1967; and University of Virginia, J. D., 1973
Military service: US Marine Corps and Reserves, 1966-1980, Captain
Other Facts:Mueller is pronounced “MUH-ler.”
Longest serving FBI Director since J. Edgar Hoover.
First FBI Director to be appointed to serve an additional two years after his 10-year term expired.
Awarded a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and two Navy Commendation Medals for his service in Vietnam.
Oversaw the prosecutions of Manuel Noriega, John Gotti and led the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mueller helped transform the FBI into an agency focused on national security as well as law enforcement, gathering intelligence and countering terrorism globally.
Timeline:1973-1976 – Associate attorney at the law firm of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro.
1976-1982 – Joins the US Attorney’s office in the Northern District of California.
1982-1988 – US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
1988-1989 – Partner at the law firm of Hill and Barlow.
1990-1993 – Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice.
1993-1995 – Becomes a senior partner in the law firm of Hale and Dorr.
1995-1998 – Joins the Homicide Section of the US Attorney’s Office in DC. Mueller becomes the section chief in 1997.
1998-2001 – US Attorney for the Northern District of California.
July 5,2001 – Nominated to be director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by President George W. Bush.
July 13,2001 – The Justice Department announces that Mueller will undergo surgery for the treatment of prostate cancer. Officials state that Mueller was diagnosed in April.
September 4,2001 – Sworn in as the sixth director of the FBI.
July 26,2011 – Congress passes legislation to extend Mueller’s term another two years from the usual fixed 10-year term. The extension of his term passes the Senate with a vote of 100-0.
September 4,2013 – Steps down after a 12-year term as the Director of the FBI. James Comey succeeds him as the new agency director.
2014-2017 – Partner at WilmerHale law firm.
September 2014 – Begins a nearly four-month independent inquiry into the NFL’s investigation and how it gathered evidence in the domestic violence case involving Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens. He later releases a 96-page report outlining his findings, concluding “the NFL should have done more with the information it had, and should have taken additional steps to obtain all available information about the February 15 [2014] incident.”
October 27,2016 – Booz Allen announces it has hired Mueller to conduct an outside review of the firm’s security and management processes after a contractor to the National Security Agency with Booz Allen was charged in August with stealing government property and unauthorized removal of classified materials.
