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JOHN SHATTUCK
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEMOCRACY,
HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR
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John Shattuck became Assistant Secretary of the State Department's
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on June 2,
1993.
From 1984-1993 Mr. Shattuck was Vice President of
Harvard University, where he also taught human rights and
civil liberties law at the Harvard Law School and served
as Senior Associate in the Program on Science, Technology
and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
A longtime human rights advocate, Mr. Shattuck was
the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties
Union, Washington Office, from 1976-1984 where he was in
charge of directing relations with the U.S. Congress and
executive branch agencies. He also served the American
Civil Liberties Union as National Counsel, litigating in
areas of privacy, government secrecy and political
surveillance from 1971-1976.
Mr. Shattuck received his LL.B degree from Yale Law School in 1970, an M.A. with First Class Honors in International Law and Jurisprudence from Cambridge University in 1967, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale College in 1965. He is married to Ellen Hume, a journalist and teacher and has four children, Jessica, Rebecca, Peter and Susannah.
