Alberto R. Gonzales was the eightieth attorney general of the United States from 2005–2007. The former Texas secretary of state and justice on the Texas supreme court, he served in the White House as counsel to the president from 2001–2005. An Air Force veteran, he attended the US Air Force Academy and is a graduate of Rice University and Harvard Law School. He is Dean and Doyle Rogers Distinguished Professor of Law at Belmont University College of Law, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
