sitting in my college dorm room with my friends gathered around to watch: My dad, standing alongside a raft of AGs, announcing their collective support for Clinton.

Even 27 years ago, the here-and-gone nature of the news cycle pushed the endorsements aside a day later. The Bush campaign sure as hell saw it, however, and afterward were unable to push their “law and order” theme without the Clinton people retorting with, “Yeah, but the AGs.”

My father reached out to all the attorneys general in the country and convinced most of them to endorse Clinton for president.

It was a subtle piece of business, a nifty little checkmate that definitely helped Clinton win. My father was nominated and approved as a U.S. Attorney for Alabama after Clinton took office, thanks inIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2006. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2008, the MS degree in applied mathematics in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2011, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of Southern California in 2014. His research interests are in decentralized stochastic control, decentralized decision-making in sensing and communication systems, game theory, mechanism design and electric energy systems.

[Urbashi Mitra]{} (F’07) received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Dr. Mitra is currently the Gordon