Theodore Bevry Olson is an American lawyer who served as the 42nd solicitor general of the United States from 2001 until 2004. Previously,Olson served as the United States Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel (1981–1984) under President Ronald Reagan. He remains a practicing attorney at the law firm of Gibson,Dunn &Crutcher.
The White House counsel is a senior staff appointee of the president of the United States whose role is to advise the president on all legal issues concerning the president and their administration. The White House counsel also oversees the Office of White House Counsel,a team of lawyers and support staff who provide legal guidance for the president and the White House Office. At least when White House counsel is advising the president on legal matters pertaining to the duties or prerogatives of the president,this office is also called Counsel to the President.
Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney,political consultant,and former lobbyist who served as White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023.
Anne Melissa Milgram is an American attorney and academic who currently serves as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since 2021. She previously served as the 57th Attorney General of New Jersey from 2007 to 2010.
Neil Harvey MacBride is an American attorney who is the General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury in the Biden administration. He previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed MacBride's nomination as U.S. Attorney on September 15,2009,and he took office three days later. He left office on September 13,2013.
Pamela Susan Karlan is an American legal scholar who was the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice from February 8,2021 until July 1,2022. She is a professor at Stanford Law School. A leading legal scholar on voting rights and constitutional law,she previously served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division from 2014 to 2015.
Reagan Blackburn Dunn is an American politician and lawyer who is a member of the nonpartisan King County Council,representing District 9 in Southeast King County,Washington. District 9 includes the cities of Bellevue,Newcastle,Renton,Maple Valley,Covington,Black Diamond,and Enumclaw,as well as large unincorporated areas.
Christopher Henry Schroeder is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Biden Administration from 2021 to 2023. He served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the United States Department of Justice during the presidency of Barack Obama,serving from April 2010 until December 2012. Before and after his time as Assistant Attorney General,he was the Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University School of Law. He is now Professor Emeritus of the same institution.
Robert F. Bauer is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama.
James Paul Oetken,known professionally as J. Paul Oetken,is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is the first openly gay man to be confirmed as an Article III judge.
Alison Julie Nathan is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2011 to 2022. She previously served as associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama.
Beth Robinson is an American lawyer and judge from Vermont. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any federal court of appeals. Robinson served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021.
Caroline Diane Krass is an American attorney and government official who currently serves as the General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
Robert Kyoung Hur is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2018 to 2021. Previously,he also served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice. On January 12,2023,Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to the role of Special Counsel responsible for investigating President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents found at Biden's home and at the Penn Biden Center,two months after Garland appointed Jack Smith to investigate Donald Trump's role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack and his handling of government documents.
Derek S. Lyons is an American attorney and former White House Staff Secretary and Counselor to the President in the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Dana Ann Remus is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel for U.S. President Joe Biden from January 2021 to July 2022. Prior to her appointment as White House counsel,Remus was general counsel for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Earlier in her career,she was deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel for ethics during the presidency of Barack Obama,was general counsel for the Obama Foundation from 2017 to 2019,and was counsel to Michelle Obama.
Robert Steven Huie is an American lawyer from California who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Edward N. Siskel is an American lawyer from Chicago who is the current White House Counsel in the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden,serving since September 2023.
Nicole Gina Berner is an American-Israeli lawyer. She is general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and a partner at the law firm of James &Hoffman. In November 2023,she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
