Beth Brinkmann

Beth S. Brinkmann (born September 24, 1958) is an American lawyer who serves as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice, heading up the Appellate staff in the DOJ's Civil Division. She also served as the Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. Brinkmann has argued more than 20 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court both in that role and in her later role as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the firm Morrison & Foerster. Brinkmann graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1980 with a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her law degree from Yale Law School in 1985. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun in 1986 and...