Legal Profile of Candidates

Mitt Romney

• Born: March 12, 1947
• J.D., MBA Harvard Law and Business Schools (1975)
• Graduated cum laude from law school
• Graduated in top 5% of his business school class

Business Career

Instead of practicing law, Romney used his combined JD-MBA to go straight into business.

• Boston Consulting Group (1975 - 1978)
• Vice President, Bain & Company (1978 - 1984)
• Co-Founder, Bain Capital (1984 - 1998)
• CEO, Bain & Company (1990 - 1998)

2002 Winter Olympics

• From 1999 - 2002, he ran the Winter Olympics
  • Turned the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's $379M shortfall into a $100M profit, and wrote a book about the change: "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games"

Political Career

• Lost 1994 U.S. Senate campaign on GOP ticket, to Sen. Ted Kennedy
• Governor of Massachusetts (2003 - 2007)
  • After Massachusetts' highest court ruling in 2003 that approved same-sex marriages, he backed state constitutional amendment, then later endorsed petition effort, that tried to ban same-sex marriages
  • December 2005 - announced he would not seek re-election
• 2008 Presidential Campaign
  • Announced in Feb. 2007 that he would seek GOP presidential nomination
  • Won 11 state primaries and caucuses (4.2M votes, 291 delegates)
  • Suspended campaign after Super Tuesday results, one year after entering the race

Personal Life

• A multi-millionaire, Romney and wife have a net worth of $250 - $500 million, and their kids have a blind trust estimated to be about $100 million.
• A member of the Mormon faith (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), where his great-great-grandfather was an Mormon leader in the 19th century.