Mythili Raman is an American lawyer and the former acting

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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 Bank of Ceylon (BOC; Sinhala: ලංකා බැංකුව ''Lanka Bænkuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை வங்கி ''Ilangai Vangi'') is a state-owned, major commercial bank in Sri Lanka. Its head office is located in an iconic cyl ...

. Her parents are originally from

Vadamarachchi Vadamarachchi ( Vaṭamarāṭci, ) is one of the three historic regions of the Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka. The other two regions are Thenmarachchi and Valikamam. Alternative spellings include Vadamarachi, Vadamaraachi or Vadamaraadchi. ...

in northern

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. Mythili graduated ''

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'' from

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in 1991 with a

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degree. She attended the

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and graduated with an honors J.D. degree in 1994.

Career

Mythili's legal career started as a

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for Francis Dominic Murnaghan, Jr., federal judge on the

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. She joined the

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in 1996 as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division's Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section. She was Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland between 1999 and 2008. In 2006 she was temporarily assigned to the Deputy Attorney General's office as Senior Counsel. Mythili joined the Criminal Division in August 2008 as Acting Chief of Staff. She was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff from September 2, 2009, to March 1, 2013. She was appointed Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division on March 1, 2013. Mythili is currently a partner at

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, where she co-chairs the firm's white collar defense and investigations practice group.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raman, Mythili American people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent Living people United States assistant attorneys general for the Criminal Division University of Chicago Law School alumni Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Yale University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)