{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1956)}} {{pp-semi-indef}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder |image = Glenn A. Fine official photo.jpg |office = Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee |president = Donald Trump |term_start = March 30, 2020 |term_end = April 6, 2020 |predecessor = Position established |successor = Michael E. Horowitz (Acting) |office1 = Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense |president1 = {{Plainlist| * Barack Obama * Donald Trump }} |term_start1 = January 14, 2016 |term_end1 = April 6, 2020 |predecessor1 = Jon Rymer |successor1 = Sean O'Donnell (Acting) |office2 = Inspector General of the Department of Justice |president2 = {{Plainlist| * Bill Clinton * George W. Bush * Barack Obama }} |term_start2 = August 10, 2000 |term_end2 = {{Plainlist| * January 28, 2011 * Acting: August 10, 2000 – December 15, 2000 }} |predecessor2 = Michael Bromwich |successor2 = Michael E. Horowitz |birth_name = Glenn Alan Fine |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|3|22}} |birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = {{marriage|Beth Heifetz|1996}} |education = {{Plainlist| * Harvard University (BA, JD) * Pembroke College, Oxford (BA) }} }} '''Glenn Alan Fine''' (born March 22, 1956)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hubbell |first=Martindale |url=https://archive.org/details/martindalehubbel06mart |title=Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia (Volume 4 - 1995) |date=April 1995 |publisher=Martindale-Hubbell |isbn=9781561601127 |url-access=registration}}</ref> is the former principal deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense and former Acting IG of the Department of Defense. Fine previously served as the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2000 until January 2011. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 2000. Prior to his appointment as the DOJ Inspector General, Fine served as Special Counsel to the DOJ Inspector General from January 1995 until 1996, when he was made Director of the OIG's Special Investigations and Review Unit.<ref name="OIG">{{Cite web |title=Glenn Fine (United States Department of Justice) |url=http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/glennfine.htm |website=USDoJ.gov |access-date=August 29, 2022 |archive-date=October 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015061530/http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/glennfine.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
He joined the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General in June 2015. Immediately prior to joining the OIG office at the Department of Justice, Fine had been in a private law practice in Washington, D.C. Before entering private practice, Fine served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Washington, D.C. United States Attorney's Office from 1986 to 1989, during which he prosecuted more than 35 criminal jury trials and handled numerous grand jury investigations.<ref name="OIG" />
On March 30, 2020, Fine was named chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, to oversee the $2 trillion stimulus funds signed into law by President Donald Trump in response to the coronavirus outbreak.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web |last=Hirsch |first=Lauren |date=March 30, 2020 |title=Department of Defense watchdog will lead Inspector General committee for $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-update-dod-watchdog-glenn-fine-to-oversee-2-trillion-stimulus-package.html |access-date=April 7, 2020 |website=CNBC |language=en |archive-date=November 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109165940/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-update-dod-watchdog-glenn-fine-to-oversee-2-trillion-stimulus-package.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On April 7, 2020, Fine was removed from his position as acting inspector general by President Trump, which made him ineligible to serve on the pandemic oversight committee.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |title=Trump Removes Independent Watchdog for Coronavirus Funds, Upending Oversight Panel |first1=Kyle |last1=Cheney |first2=Connor |last2=O'Brien |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943 |date=April 7, 2020 |access-date=April 7, 2020 |website=Politico |language=en |archive-date=May 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519133223/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FactCheck20200408">{{Cite web |last1=Rem Rieder |last2=Eugene Kiely |date=April 8, 2020 |title=Trump's Claims on IG, Wisconsin Election |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trumps-claims-on-ig-wisconsin-election |access-date=April 9, 2020 |website=FactCheck.org |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712105039/https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trumps-claims-on-ig-wisconsin-election/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On May 26, 2020, Fine submitted his resignation as principal deputy inspector general effective June 1, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Resigns, Becomes Latest Watchdog to Exit Administration |last1=Cohen |first1=Zachary |last2=Starr |first2=Barbara |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/glenn-fine-pentagon-resigns/index.html |website=CNN |date=May 26, 2020 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526214017/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/glenn-fine-pentagon-resigns/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Fine currently is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/people/glenn-fine/|title=Glenn Fine|website=Brookings|access-date=August 14, 2023|archive-date=August 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814115708/https://www.brookings.edu/people/glenn-fine/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/glenn-fine/|title=Glenn Fine|access-date=August 14, 2023|archive-date=August 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814115706/https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/glenn-fine/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Fine's father was an antitrust lawyer at the Justice Department for 28 years.<ref name="NYT0326" />
Fine attended Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. In 1979, he graduated with an A.B. degree in economics from Harvard College, magna cum laude. He was co-captain of the Harvard varsity basketball team.
Though only 5'9", he was a 10th-round draft pick by the San Antonio Spurs, an NBA basketball team, in 1979. Instead, he accepted a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.<ref name="OIG" /><ref name="NYT0326">{{Cite web |title=Glare of Publicity Finds an Inspector General |first=Scott |last=Shane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/washington/26inspector.html |date=March 26, 2007 |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 7, 2007 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104092003/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/washington/26inspector.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He continued his basketball playing career as a member of the Oxford University men's basketball team. Fine earned another BA (promoted to an MA, per Oxford tradition) degree at Pembroke College, Oxford. He received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1985.<ref name="OIG" />
==Career== ===Inspector General of the Department of Justice=== Fine was appointed Inspector General of the Department of Justice by President Bill Clinton in 2000. The office is expected to be non-partisan.<ref name="NYT0326" /> He served through the George W. Bush administration and part of the Barack Obama administration. Fine has a reputation as an aggressive, independent investigator.<ref name="FactCheck20200408" /> Fine served as a member of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. He resigned as the DOJ Inspector General in February 2011. He joined Dechert as a partner in the White Collar & Securities Litigation Practice on September 6, 2011.<ref name="Justice and the I.G">{{Cite news |date=February 1, 2011 |title=Justice and the I.G. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/opinion/02wed4.html |access-date=August 29, 2022 |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610145121/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/opinion/02wed4.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Shortly after he announced his retirement, ''The New York Times'' praised Fine's tenure as the DOJ Inspector General:<blockquote>The Department of Justice's inspector general, Glenn Fine, stepped down on Friday after a decade of pushing to clean up and depoliticize a hyperpoliticized department. He will be missed. Mr. Fine's best-known efforts came in 2008 when he documented the George W. Bush administration's politically driven firings of four United States attorneys and its politically driven hirings (breaking the civil service law) of scores of civil servants at the Civil Rights Division. Last year, he continued to detail the F.B.I.'s widespread misuse since 2001 of 'exigent letters'... President Obama should appoint a vigilant successor to Mr. Fine, one who will continue to expose the department's shortcomings and their costs.<ref name="Justice and the I.G" /></blockquote>Other newspapers also praised his tenure as the DOJ IG. The Washington Post wrote, "The job of Inspector General is often thankless one, requiring the ability to make unflinching and crucial assessments that are not always well received by colleagues. The Justice Department employed one of the best during the past decade in the person of Glenn A. Fine, who recently stepped down. Mr. Fine was instrumental in unearthing problems and identifying solutions in the mammoth agency since joining the IG's office in the mid-1990s. He took over the reins in 2000 and led investigations into all facets of the department's operations".<ref>{{Cite news |title=A Fine Job |first=Ruth |last=Marcus |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-fine-job/2011/02/12/ABjrYzF_story.html |date=February 12, 2011 |language=en |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 24, 2016 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=October 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019075805/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-fine-job/2011/02/12/ABjrYzF_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A segment on NPR praised Fine as "a model IG."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Glenn Fine Praised As Model Inspector General |first=Ari |last=Shapiro |url=https://www.npr.org/2008/11/11/96835115/glenn-fine-praised-as-model-inspector-general |date=November 11, 2008 |work=NPR |access-date=November 24, 2016 |archive-date=August 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830014132/https://www.npr.org/2008/11/11/96835115/glenn-fine-praised-as-model-inspector-general |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Defense Department IG and Pandemic Response Accountability Committee=== In June 2015, Fine returned to public service and accepted a position as the principal deputy inspector general of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD OIG). On January 10, 2016, Fine became the acting inspector general for the DOD.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glenn A. Fine - Biography |url=https://www.war.gov/About/Biographies/Article/602703/glenn-a-fine/ |website=United States Department of Defense |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023205146/https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602703/glenn-a-fine/ |archive-date=October 23, 2018 |access-date=October 23, 2018 |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense}}</ref>
On March 30, 2020, Fine was named chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, to oversee the $2 trillion stimulus funds signed into law by President Donald Trump in response to the coronavirus outbreak.<ref name="autogenerated2" /> On April 7, 2020, Fine was removed from the position of acting DOD IG by Trump, who claimed without evidence that he was "partisan". That had the effect of also removing him from the accountability committee because only serving IGs can be members.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released a rare public criticism of the firing, calling Fine "a public servant in the finest tradition of honest, competent governance."<ref>{{Cite web |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Jenna |last2=Knowles |first2=David |last3=Isikoff |first3=Michael |date=April 7, 2020 |title=Mattis Rebukes Trump over Removal of Pentagon Inspector General |url=https://news.yahoo.com/trump-declares-war-on-inspectors-general-201355376.html |access-date=April 8, 2020 |website=Yahoo! News |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115234640/https://news.yahoo.com/trump-declares-war-on-inspectors-general-201355376.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On April 8, legislation was introduced in the House to allow Fine to continue as chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.<ref name="FactCheck20200408" />
On May 26, seven weeks after his dismissal from the acting inspector general position, Fine submitted his resignation as principal deputy inspector general, effective June 1. A Pentagon official said Fine resigned voluntarily and was not pushed out.<ref name = Cohen/> In a statement Fine gave no reason for resigning but said inspectors general "are a vital component of our system of checks and balances, and I am grateful to have been part of that system. After many years in the DoJ and DoD OIGs, I believe the time has come for me to step down and allow others to perform this vital role."<ref name="Cohen">{{Cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Zachary |last2=Starr |first2=Barbara |date=May 26, 2020 |title=Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Resigns, Becomes Latest Watchdog to Exit Administration |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/glenn-fine-pentagon-resigns/index.html |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526214017/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/glenn-fine-pentagon-resigns/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Personal life== In September 1993, Fine married Beth Heifetz, a former law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. The wedding was jointly officiated at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., by Justice Blackmun and Rabbi Howard Gorin.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 6, 1993 |title=Weddings; Beth Heifetz and Glenn A. Fine |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/06/style/weddings-beth-heifetz-and-glenn-a-fine.html |page=2 |access-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-date=December 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241218183657/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/06/style/weddings-beth-heifetz-and-glenn-a-fine.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Fine and Heifetz have two children.
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==Bibliography== *{{Cite news |title=The Constitution's Ombudsman - Harvard Law Today |work=Harvard Law Today |url=http://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/the-constitutions-ombudsman/ |access-date=November 24, 2016 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307202610/https://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/the-constitutions-ombudsman/ |url-status=live }} *{{Cite news |date=December 3, 2010 |title=Watching over Justice |language=en |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-dec-03-la-ed-inspector-20101203-story.html |access-date=November 24, 2016 |issn=0458-3035 |archive-date=November 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125050708/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/03/opinion/la-ed-inspector-20101203 |url-status=live }} *{{Cite press release |title=The National Law Journal Names DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine as 2008 Lawyer of the Year |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081222005037/en/National-Law-Journal-Names-DOJ-Inspector-General |access-date=November 24, 2016 |website=Business Wire |archive-date=November 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110012157/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081222005037/en/National-Law-Journal-Names-DOJ-Inspector-General |url-status=live }}
==External links== * {{URL|https://www.war.gov/About/Biographies/Article/602703/glenn-a-fine/|United States Department of Defense IG biography}} * {{C-SPAN|89685}}
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