{{short description|American lawyer}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Mythili Raman | image = Mythili Raman official portrait.jpg | image_size = | office = Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division | president = Barack Obama | term_start = March 1, 2013 | term_end = May 15, 2014 | predecessor = Lanny Breuer | successor = Leslie Caldwell | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Birth-date and age|Month DD, YYYY}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | party = | spouse = | children = | education = Yale University (BA)<br />University of Chicago (JD) }} '''Mythili Raman''' is an American lawyer and the former acting Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice's Criminal Division.
==Early life and family== Mythili is the daughter of Athishdam Tharmaratnam and grand daughter of C. Loganathan, former general manager of the Bank of Ceylon.<ref name=ST300613>{{cite news|title=Acting US Assistant AG has Lankan roots|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130630/news/acting-us-assistant-ag-has-lankan-roots-50967.html|newspaper=The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)|date=30 June 2013}}</ref> Her parents are originally from Vadamarachchi in northern Sri Lanka.<ref name=ST300613/><ref name=TN180613>{{cite news|title=Rising star in U.S. Justice|url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36414|newspaper=TamilNet|date=18 June 2013}}</ref>
Mythili graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Yale University in 1991 with a B.A. degree.<ref name=DoJ>{{cite web|title=Meet the AAG|url=https://www.justice.gov/criminal/about/aag.html|publisher=United States Department of Justice}}</ref> She attended the University of Chicago Law School and graduated with an honors J.D. degree in 1994.<ref name=DoJ/>
==Career== Mythili's legal career started as a law clerk for Francis Dominic Murnaghan, Jr., federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.<ref name=DoJ/> She joined the United States Department of Justice in 1996 as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division's Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section.<ref name=DoJ/> She was Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland between 1999 and 2008.<ref name=DoJ/> In 2006 she was temporarily assigned to the Deputy Attorney General's office as Senior Counsel.<ref name=DoJ/>
Mythili joined the Criminal Division in August 2008 as Acting Chief of Staff.<ref name=DoJ/> She was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff from September 2, 2009, to March 1, 2013.<ref name=DoJ/> She was appointed Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division on March 1, 2013.<ref name=DoJ/>
Mythili is currently a partner at Covington & Burling, where she co-chairs the firm's white collar defense and investigations practice group.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/r/mythili-raman |title=Covington & Burling LLP {{!}} Mythili Raman |website=www.cov.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107120612/https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/r/mythili-raman |archive-date=2017-11-07}}</ref>
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