Samuel Bagenstos, J.D.

Samuel Bagenstos is the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. While on leave from the University in 2021 to 2024, he served in the Biden Administration, first as General Counsel to the Office of Management and Budget, then as General Counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services. While on leave from the University in 2009 to 2011, he served in the Obama Administration, where he was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. From 2019 to 2021, he chaired the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. Sam is a former law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States.