Eric R. Dinallo
American politician
Eric R. Dinallo is a partner and chair of the insurance regulatory practice at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and a member of the firm's Financial Institutions and White Collar & Regulatory Defense Groups. Formerly Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Counsel at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Inc. Formerly Superintendent of Insurance for New York State, he was nominated by Governor Eliot Spitzer and confirmed by the New York State Senate on April 18, 2007, as the 39th Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department. On May 28, 2009, he announced his resignation and subsequently left state government service to become a visiting professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. On August 24, 2009, Dinallo announced that he was preparing for a possible campaign for the elected office of New York State Attorney General. He was defeated in the primary on September 14, 2010, by Eric T. Schneiderman, who went on to win the office in the general election.
Background and education
Dinallo graduated from Vassar College in 1985 with a major in philosophy, and earned a master's degree from Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy in 1987. He then attended New York University Law School where he was an editor of the New York University Law Review and Essay Editor and a member of the Order of the Coif. He obtained his J.D. in 1990. He then clerked with the Honorable David M. Ebel of the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit in Denver.
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