John Kroger

John Kroger is a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland and candidate for Attorney General of the U.S. state of Oregon in 2008.

Kroger is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School and served in the United States Marine Corps. Before teaching law, he was a Deputy Policy Director of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, legislative assistant to U. S. Representative Tom Foley (D–WA) and U. S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), senior policy analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department, and a federal prosecutor. As a prosecutor, Kroger won the Director's Award from then-Attorney General Janet Reno, worked on the emergency response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and served on the Justice Department's Enron Task Force. He lives in Portland. [ [http://www.johnkroger.com/?q=node/4 Meet John John Kroger for Attorney General] from johnkroger.com] [ [http://www.lclark.edu/dept/lawadmss/kroger.html John Kroger, Associate Professor of Law] from Lewis and Clark web site.]

On September 20, 2007, John Kroger announced his candidacy for Oregon Attorney General. Kroger has been endorsed by former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, [ [http://www.blueoregon.com/2007/11/kitzhaber-endor.html BlueOregon: Kitzhaber Endorses Kroger ] ] the Sierra Club, [ [http://www.johnkroger.com/?q=node/74 Sierra Club Endorses John for Attorney General | John Kroger for Attorney General ] ] Oregon Small Business for Responsible Leadership, and the Carpenters Union. [ [http://www.johnkroger.com/?q=node/78 Carpenters Union, Oregon Small Business for Responsible Leadership Endorse John | John Kroger for Attorney General ] ] He defeated Greg Macpherson for the Democratic nomination in the May 20, 2008 primary election. No Republican candidate filed for the race, so Kroger, as the winner of the primary, is expected to assume the office. [cite news
title=Reviving Oregon elections
first=Phil
last=Keisling
date=April 13, 2008
work=The Oregonian
url=http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1207947323320380.xml&coll=7] [cite news
title=Kroger defeats Macpherson for attorney general
first=Ashbel
last=Green
work=The Oregonian
date=May 21, 2008
url=http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1211351121118860.xml&coll=7] An unofficial survey of Republican write-in votes by the The Oregonian indicates he probably won the Republican nomination as well. [cite news
title=Kroger wins attorney general nomination (another one)
first=Ashbel
last=Green
date=June 10, 2008
work=The Oregonian
url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/06/kroger_wins_attorney_general_n.html]

His book, "Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves" [ [http://us.macmillan.com/convictions Publisher’s web page] for "Convictions"] was published in May 2008 by FSG.

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External links

* [http://www.johnkroger.com John Kroger for Attorney General site]
* [http://www.lclark.edu/dept/lawadmss/kroger.html Lewis and Clark Faculty Biography]
* [http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3311/8475/ Willamette Week mention of possible Kroger candidacy]