John Bash
John Franklin Bash III is an American attorney who currently serves as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.Biography
In 2003, Bash graduated from Harvard College, where he was a staff writer for the Harvard Crimson. In 2006 he received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Bash clerked for Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court during the 2007-2008 Term, and earlier for Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Following Bash's clerkships, he was an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where his practice focused on complex litigation in federal district and appellate courts. From 2012 to 2017, Bash was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice. In that role, he argued ten cases on behalf of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. From 2017 to 2018, he was a special assistant and associate counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump. On December 11, 2017, he was sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas.
On May 27, 2020, a Justice Department spokeswoman said that Attorney General William Barr had assigned Bash to review practices of the Trump-Russia investigation related to the 2016 "unmasking" of Trump's advisor Gen. Michael Flynn in a phone call with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.Personal life
In 2007, Bash married Zina Gelman, who had also clerked for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
