From the December issue: Cyrus Vance Jr. is heading into his seventh year as Manhattan’s district attorney, a job that brings roughly 100,000 cases across his desk each year and involves overseeing more than 540 attorneys. Vance is no stranger to politics: He’s the son of the late Cyrus Vance, who was secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter.
The younger Vance got his start as an assistant DA in the Manhattan office from 1982 to 1988. He then moved to Seattle, where he worked in private practice and rose to become one of the city’s most well-known white-collar attorneys. In 2009, after returning to New York, he campaigned as a Democrat in a three-way race for the position of Manhattan D.A and won in a landslide after securing an endorsement from the incumbent Robert Morgenthau. [more]