Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff speaks before an audience at Philadelphia's Union League
Secretary Chertoff addresses accomplishments in homeland security five years after September 11, 2001 and department efforts to keep Americans safe in this age of terrorism.
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Bio
Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act.
He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005.
Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as Senior Of Counsel at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling. He also co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk management and security consulting company, which employs several senior officials from his time as Secretary of Homeland Security as well as Michael Hayden, a former Director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.