Attorney General of the United States since March 2021, Merrick Brian Garland was born in America on November 13, 1952. Prior to this, he worked as a U.S. Circuit judge for the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals from 1997 until 2021.

Garland is a native of the Chicago region, and he received both his undergraduate and law education at Harvard.

Merrick Garland  wife, and children

In September 1987, Garland and his wife Lynn were wed at the Harvard Club in Manhattan. Samuel Irving Rosenman, the grandfather of Lynn Rosenman Garland, served as a judge on the trial-level New York Supreme Court as well as a special advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

Rebecca and Jessica, the couple’s two daughters, both earned degrees from Yale University.

Before Biden was elected and Garland was appointed, Justice Elena Kagan chose Jessica Garland, a 2019 Yale legal School graduate, as one of her legal clerks in early July 2020 to work as a law clerk in 2022–2023.

Merrick Garland  parents, and siblings

On November 13, 1952, in Chicago, Brian Garland was born. He was raised in Lincolnwood, a bordering suburb of Chicago on the north. A

t Chicago’s Council for Jewish Elderly, currently known as CJE SeniorLife, his mother Shirley (née Horwitz; 1925–2016) served as the director of volunteer services.

Garland Advertising, a modest company operated out of the family home, was led by his father, Cyril Garland (1915–2000).