Acting Solicitor General Announces Resignation
Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger announced Wednesday that he will return to teaching in September. Dellinger, 56, said he would conclude his work as overseer of the government’s court appeals by appearing Aug. 11 before the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to defend the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed regulation of nicotine and tobacco products.
No successor has been named.
On Sept. 1, Dellinger will return to Duke University, where he taught law before joining the Clinton administration in 1993. His departure had been expected. He has been commuting to North Carolina on weekends since August 1995, when his wife, Anne, finished a two-year sabbatical in Washington.
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