Kenneth D. Ackermanis the author of the Dark Horse: The Surprise
Election and Political Murder of James A. Garfield, featured on
C-Span's "Booknotes" and "BookTV" plus National Public Radio's "All
Thing's Considered," and The Gold Ring: Wall Street's Swindle of
the Century and Its Most Scandalous Crash--Black Friday, 1869,
which recounts a notorious attempt to corner the post--Civil War
gold market.
Ackerman is a 25-year veteran of senior positions in Congress, the
executive branch, and financial regulation. As Administrator of the
Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency from 1993
through 2001, he headed the Federal crop insurance program that
protects more than one million American farm producers. Ackerman
has also served two tours on U.S. Senate staffs, first as Counsel
to the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1975--81) under
then-Senator Charles H. Percy, Republican, of Illinois, and later
as Special Counsel to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry (1988-93) under its then-Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy,
Democrat, of Vermont. During the years between, he held senior
legal positions at the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
In these positions, Ackerman has investigated issues ranging from
the 1979-180 silver corner to the 1987 stock market crash, and
developed legislation on topics from farm policy to electronic
eavesdropping to civil service reform to financial market
oversight. He has testified before dozens of Congressional hearings
and town meetings with farmers in more than twenty states, as well
as bar assciations and government officials in London, Warsaw,
Vienna, Tel Aviv, and Ramallah.
He was profiled in Government Executive magazine in 1997 and
included by National Journal that year in its "Washington 100" list
of top Federal decision-makers. He currently teaches seminars on
legislation and lobbying for TheCapitol.Net.
A native of Albany, New York, and graduate of Brown University
(1973) and the Georgetown University Law Center (1976), Ackerman
practices law in Washington, D. C. and lives with his wife Karen in
Falls Church, Virginia.
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