19 Facts About Manuel Miranda

Manuel A Miranda was born on 1959 and is an American attorney, diplomat, journalist, and political advocate.

Manuel Miranda served as a diplomat at the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad as the first Director of the Office of Legislative Statecraft.

Manuel Miranda was naturalized as an American citizen along with his father and sister in 1976.

Manuel Miranda graduated with honors from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Astoria, Queens.

Manuel Miranda attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Ridgewood, Queens, obtaining that school's highest graduation award, the Pvt.

Manuel Miranda attended Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service where he was the 1981 Circumnavigators Foundation Fellow, earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service.

In 1980, while at Georgetown, Miranda took a leave of absence to work on international refugee assistance as a Junior Operations Officer for the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, which is the International Organization for Migration, at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was assigned to Madrid, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Manuel Miranda attended law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was the first Charles Rummel Scholar.

Manuel Miranda has been admitted without interruption to the Bar of the State of New York for over 30 years, as well as to the Maryland Bar.

Manuel Miranda's clients included Mobil Oil Corporation, Ramada Renaissance, International Finance Corporation, InterAmerican Development Bank, Bank of America, Irving Trust, Bank of New York, Credit Lyonnais, National Grid, Caterpillar, PEMEX, BHP Power, and King Ranch.

Manuel Miranda has organized and structured a number of non-profit organizations, including guiding some in internecine struggles for control.

Manuel Miranda has assisted clients in immigration, corporate governance and crisis management, and as canon law counsel to Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, winning for him a favorable result at the Vatican in a case against Georgetown University.

In 2001, Manuel Miranda joined the staff of the United States Senate, where he was assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary as Nominations Counsel in the staff of Senator Orrin Hatch.

Manuel Miranda stressed Estrada's Honduran immigrant roots and argued the attack on Pryor showed anti-Catholic bigotry.

In February 2004, Manuel Miranda resigned his Senate position in an unusually public manner calling for an investigation of the Democrat memos.

Manuel Miranda took an unwavering position that he was fully entitled by the Code of Ethics for Government Service to read the unprotected documents accessible on his desktop, especially if they might evidence corruption.

Manuel Miranda never backed down, while Democrats demanded his demise he published a law review article on the law and ethics of Memogate and then brought a lawsuit to invite a federal judge to give him a declaratory judgment on Democrats' claims against him, laying out in both cases allegations of Democrat Senators' wrongdoing.

Manuel Miranda has a decades-old history of advocacy as a Georgetown University alumnus.

In 2007 and 2008, Manuel Miranda served as a diplomat with the United States Embassy in Iraq as the first Director of the Office for Legislative Statecraft.