1. Howard William Gutman was born on July 8,1956 and is a lawyer, actor and former United States Ambassador to Belgium under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.
27 Facts About Howard Gutman
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Howard Gutman attended public elementary schools and then the Bronx High School of Science in New York.
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Howard Gutman clerked for Judge Irving Loeb Goldberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Howard Gutman left the firm to clerk for Justice Potter Stewart on the United States Supreme Court.
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Howard Gutman represented a wide variety of clients during his 25-year career, including acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and many states' attorneys general in suits against Microsoft Corporation.
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Howard Gutman once represented Susan Rosenberg, a former member of the Weather Underground accused, but never indicted or convicted, in the 1981 Brinks robbery in post-conviction, constitutional litigation.
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Howard Gutman provided representation to Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, a former Bolivian president, and Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain, a defense minister, who were sued in American courts by Bolivians following an attempted coup in Bolivia.
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Howard Gutman has long been active in Democratic politics, working on policy issues, speech writing, constituency work, legal representation, and media.
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Howard Gutman has helped raise money for Democratic presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional candidates, including Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000.
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Howard Gutman contributed the legal maximum of $2300 to Bill Clinton's presidential bid.
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Howard Gutman bundled at least half a million for Obama's campaign committee and another $275,000 for his inauguration.
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Howard Gutman has been dubbed by one Belgian newspaper as "the most popular ambassador ever in Belgium" and is the second longest serving US Ambassador to Belgium in the last 35 years.
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US Senator Patrick Leahy placed Howard Gutman's poem, given on Memorial Day at Flanders Field, into the Congressional Record.
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Howard Gutman had the goal of visiting each of the 589 municipalities in Belgium.
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Howard Gutman's intention was not only to visit managers and politicians, but ordinary citizens and employees.
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Howard Gutman left his post as ambassador on July 23,2013.
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Howard Gutman issued a statement saying, "I deeply regret if my comments were taken the wrong way", highlighting his history of condemning and combating anti-semitism, and making reference to his background as the son of a Holocaust survivor.
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The subsequent press demonstrated both that Ambassador Howard Gutman had been misquoted and the accuracy of his speech.
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Currently, Howard Gutman is on the Regional Board of the American Jewish Committee Washington DC.
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Howard Gutman is currently the Managing Director of The Howard Gutman Group, a consulting, advisory and investment firm focused on resolving corporate issues, fostering cross-border investment, market access, venture capital, international relations and more.
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The Howard Gutman Group focuses largely on the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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Howard Gutman is a frequent speaker including at recent investor conferences in London and Copenhagen; delivered the keynote speech at the Brussels Sustainable Development Summit in October 2015 and speaks often at annual foundation and organization meetings.
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Howard Gutman has appeared several times recently on the Fox Network and on Belgian television providing commentary about the 2016 election.
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Howard Gutman has been awarded the "Grand-Cross in the Order of the Crown", the second highest civilian medal awarded by Belgium.
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Howard Gutman wrote a first-person account of the time in Belgium, reviewing the successes and the difficulties of public service in the age of bloggers.
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Howard Gutman acted in several episodes of the HBO series K Street, Tim Robbins' film Noise and the 2009 film Fame.
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Howard Gutman has been heard on "The Kevin Sheehan Show" Podcast as a legal analyst.