Michael Aguirre is currently the City Attorney for the City of San Diego, California, a post that he has occupied since December 6, 2004. Aguirre previously worked as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice, directing a grand jury investigation of pension racketeering. Following that, he was appointed as assistant counsel to the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. A district attorney at the city level in the United States is the prosecutor for a municipality or local judicial district. ... Nickname: Americas Finest City Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: Country United States State California County San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders City Attorney Michael Aguirre City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna Frye Jim Madaffer Ben Hueso Area    - City 963. ... United States Attorneys represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court. ... DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. Justice Department redirects here. ... A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, which determines if there is enough evidence for a trial. ... A pension is a steady income given to a person (usually after retirement). ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...

Aguirre earned a Bachelor's degree at Arizona State, a Master's degree from Harvard University, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Arizona State University (ASU) is (as of 2004) the third-largest university in the United States with a student body of 57,543. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate (or graduate) course of one to three years in duration. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...

External links

• San Diego City Attorney official site
• NY Times article, with Aguirre's photo
• San Diego Magazine article (October, 2004)