Atlanta attorney tapped to be next FBI director

President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he had picked Christopher Wray to lead the FBI because he had “impeccable credentials.”

Wray, a former assistant attorney general who led the Justice Department’s criminal division under George W. Bush, started as an attorney at Atlanta-based legal giant King & Spalding in 1993 and served between 1997 and 2001 as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta.

He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2003 and led the criminal division for two years before returning to King & Spalding as a partner with offices in Atlanta and Washington.

Read entire story: on-ajc. com/Wray president in April after the board of trustees removed John Silvanus Wilson and its board leadership after constant rancor between the two sides. Taggart, 55, died of an aneurysm, a spokesman for the college’s board of trustees said.

Some leaders at Morehouse, which is in the midst of its search for a new president, had hoped Taggart could fill the void permanently. Instead, the college’s board president was working on a plan Thursday to find a leader to replace Taggart, and alumni are hopeful that will happen soon to maintain stability at Morehouse, the nation’s only historically black college and university for men.

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