American attorney Robert Mueller has been an audience personality for several decades. However, he rose to prominence in 2017 following his appointment as Special Counsel to investigate Russian government interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Previously, Müller was popular as director of the Federal Criminal Police Office (FBI). He held this position for 12 years (2001-2013).
Despite closing the Russians after an investigation, Mueller remains in the headlines as Democratic members of Congress insist he testify before the House on the matter, to give them the opportunity to interrogate him. Take a look into the life of the renowned American prosecutor.
Robert Mueller Bio (Age)
Robert Mueller was born on August 7, 1944 in Manhattan, New York City of the United States of America. He was the first child and only son of Robert Swan Mueller Jr. and his wife Alice Truesdale. His parents later welcomed four more children – all girls, namely Susan, Sandra, Joan and Patricia. They raised him with his sisters in Princeton, New Jersey. There he attended Princeton Day School through eighth grade when his family moved to Philadelphia. Mueller then enrolled at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, where he completed his high school education.
During his days in St. Paul, Mueller took an active part in sports like lacrosse, soccer, and hockey, advancing to captain on each of the teams. He later graduated as the school’s top athlete in 1962, earning him the Gordon Medal. Of note is the fact that John Kerry, who later became a US Senator and Secretary of State, was Mueller’s classmate and lacrosse teammate at St. Pauls.
After graduating from high school, Robert Mueller went back to his childhood days and enrolled at Princeton University, his father’s alma mater. There he studied politics and graduated in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts in this field. He immediately went to New York University and earned an MA in International Relations in 1967. Mueller later studied law at the University of Virginia School of Law. After serving with the Virginia Law Review, he received his Juris Doctor (JD) in 1973.
legal career
Robert Mueller got his first law job at the San Francisco-based law firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, serving as a trial attorney from 1973-1976. Over the next twelve years he worked in various law firms in the USA. He later worked with the Boston law firm Hill and Barlow in 1988.
In 1989, Mueller was called to the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant attorney general and later as an assistant attorney general. In 1990 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General to the Department’s Criminal Division. He later became a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1991.
In 1993, Mueller entered the private sector, working as a litigator at the Boston law firm Hale and Dorr. Two years later, however, he returned to public service, working as a senior trial attorney in the homicide division of the US Attorney’s Office of Colombia. He later became US Attorney for the Northern District of California in 1998 and served in that capacity until 2001.
FBI
In July 2001, newly elected President George W. Bush elected appointed Mueller as Director of the FBI, taking office on September 4, 2001, just a week before the September 11 attacks. Prior to his appointment, he briefly served as deputy attorney general for the newly inaugurated Bush administration.
In 2011, President Barack Obama added two years to Mueller’s tenure as FBI director, which is originally a ten-year term. Finally, on September 4, 2013, he left the position as the second longest-serving FBI director after Edgar J. Hoover, the first director, who served 48 years.
Upon leaving the FBI, Robert Mueller started working as a consulting professor and distinguished lecturer at Stanford University. Since 2014, he has been a partner at the WilmerHale law firm in Washington, where he handles the firm’s most critical cases.
Special Advisor
On May 17th. In 2017, the Trump administration appointed Mueller as a special representative of the US Department of Justice to investigate the Russian government’s alleged involvement in the 2016 presidential election. After assuming the position, he resigned from WilmerHale.
On March 22, 2019, Mueller and his team completed the 22-month investigation and documented it in a 448-page report, which they submitted to acting Attorney General William Barr. In his May 29, 2019, closing statement on the investigation, Mueller indicated that he was leaving the Justice Department and returning to private enterprise.
His family – wife and children
Robert Mueller married Ann Cabell Standish on 3. September 1966. He had met Ann at a party a few years earlier when they were high school students. They have two daughters – Melissa and Cynthia. Mueller’s daughter Ann is married and has one child. Cynthia has two children (Robert and Campbell) with her husband Chris Donley. Mueller delivered a keynote speech at his granddaughter, Campbell’s high school graduation in 2017.
Robert Müller’s wife Ann worked as a specialist private school teacher for students with learning disabilities. Ann has been with Müller since his first degree. She has been very supportive of both his legal and public office careers and has accompanied him in all of his relocations to and from numerous cities across the United States as his work has required over the years. This apparently explains why she does not have a career of her own after her first job as a teacher. Just like Müller, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, Ann has undergone two cancer treatments.
Mueller’s net worth (income and earnings)
The exact number of Robert Mueller’s net worth is yet to be released to the media. However, based on his recent net worth listing ranging from $4 million to $15 million, Mueller’s net worth must be reported in millions of dollars.
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Müller’s main source of income is his legal professional and public offices. He reportedly made as much as $3.4 million from high-profile clients while working with WilmerHale. He was reportedly paid just over $160,000 in salary while serving as Special Counsel for the Russia Inquiry. Mueller has also made tidy investments in big tech companies like Alphabet and Facebook alongside his family.
His size
Robert Mueller is a fairly tall male, standing at a height of 6 feet tall. Müller has salt and pepper colored hair and hazel green eyes.