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Andrew H. Schapiro was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic on August 14, 2014 and presented his credentials to President Milos Zeman on September 30, 2014.

The son of a Czech immigrant to the United States, Ambassador Schapiro was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a lawyer by training who early in his career served as a Law Clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and to Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. He then worked as a public-interest lawyer in the office of the Federal Public Defender in New York City, defending individuals charged with federal crimes who could not afford to hire their own attorneys.