Biography leon panetta

Leon Panetta co-founded the Panetta Institute for Public Policy with his wife Sylvia in 1997 upon completion of his service as White House chief of staff in the Bill Clinton administration. He co-directed it with her until 2009, when he left to serve as CIA director and then secretary of defense under President Obama. He returned to the Institute as chairman in 2013. A Monterey native and Santa Clara University School of Law graduate, Secretary Panetta began his long and distinguished public service career in 1964 as a U.S. Army intelligence officer, receiving the Army Commendation Medal. Upon discharge he went to work in Washington as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senate Minority Whip Tom Kuchel of California. In 1969, he was appointed director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights, where he was responsible for ensuring equal opportunity in public education, and later he served as executive assistant to the mayor of New York City. He then returned to Monterey, wher

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Leon Panetta

American retired politician (born 1938)

Leon Panetta
Official portrait, 2011
In office July 1, 2011 – February 26, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	William J. Lynn III Ash Carter
Preceded by	Robert Gates
Succeeded by	Chuck Hagel
In office February 13, 2009 – June 30, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Stephen Kappes Michael Morell
Preceded by	Michael Hayden
Succeeded by	David Petraeus
In office July 17, 1994 – January 20, 1997
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Mack McLarty
Succeeded by	Erskine Bowles
In office January 21, 1993 – July 17, 1994
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Richard Darman
Succeeded by	Alice Rivlin
In office January 3, 1989 – January 21, 1993
Preceded by	William H. Gray
Succeeded by	Martin Olav Sabo
In office January 3, 1977 – January 21, 1993
Preceded by	Burt Talcott
Succeeded by