Early Life, Education, and Legal Career
Born in Summit, New Jersey, Gansler attended Chevy Chase Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland, and then Sidwell Friends School, a Quaker school in the Washington, DC area, for grades 6-12. From Sidwell Friends School, Gansler went on to Yale University, where he was an All-Ivy, All–New England College lacrosse player, nurtured an interest in public service, and graduated cum laude. Gansler earned a law degree law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was a law clerk to Hon. John F. McAuliffe, Judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals.
After clerking and working for a brief period as a real estate lawyer at a title company and at the law firms of Coburn & Schertler and Howrey & Simon, Gansler became an Assistant U.S. Attorney, serving from 1992 to 1998. There he prosecuted, among others, the Georgian diplomat who killed a young woman while driving drunk near Dupont Circle.
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