Lisa Monaco

Lisa Monaco
6th United States Homeland Security Advisor
Incumbent
Assumed office March 8, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	John Brennan
4th Assistant Attorney General for National Security
In office July 1, 2011 – March 8, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	David Kris
Succeeded by	John Carlin
Personal details
Born	Lisa Oudens Monaco (1968-02-23) February 23, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Chicago

Lisa Oudens Monaco (born February 25, 1968) is an American federal prosecutor who currently serves as the United States Homeland Security Advisor to President Barack Obama; the chief counterterrorism advisor to the President, and a statutory member of the United States Homeland Security Council.

Monaco previously served as the Assistant Attorney General for National Security from 2011 to 2013, and as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department.

Early life, education, and career

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Anthony and Mary Lou Monaco, she was raised in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from The Winsor School in 1986.^[1][2][3]

Monaco attended Harvard University, graduating with her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in American History and Literature, in 1990.^[4] After graduating, she worked as a research associate for The Wilson Quarterly at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1990 to 1991, and as a senior associate for the Health Care Advisory Board, a healthcare advisory group, from 1991 to 1992.^[5] She worked for as a research coordinator for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1992 to 1994 under then chairman Joe Biden, where she worked on the Violence Against Women Act;^[6] before enrolling into the University of Chicago Law School where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable.^[7] During her time at the University of Chicago, she briefly worked as an intern for District Court Judge Wendell P. Gardner, Jr., on the D.C. Superior Court and as an intern for the United States Department of Justice in 1995.^[8] She worked as an intern for the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in 1996, and entered private practice as a summer associate for the law firm Hogan and Hartson, LLP, before receiving her Juris Doctor in 1997.^[9] She was admitted to the New York City Bar Association in 1998.

United States Department of Justice

From 1997 to 1998, Monaco worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Jane Richards Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and as the Counsel to then Attorney General Janet Reno from 1998 to 2001.^[10] From 2001 to 2007, she worked in the United States Attorney's office for the District of Columbia, where she was as an assistant prosecuting attorney, and was appointed as a special prosecutor, co-leading the trail counsel for the Justice Department's Enron Task Force, from 2004 to 2006.^[11] Monaco received Department of Justice Awards for Special Achievement in 2002, 2003 and 2005.^[12] After the end of the Enron trial and the Justice Department's disbandment of the special task force, Monaco worked as a special counselor to FBI Director Robert Mueller. She was later chosen by Mueller to work as a full-time counselor and as his Deputy Chief of Staff from May to September 2007,^[13] when she was appointed by Mueller as his Chief of Staff; a position she held until January 2009.^[7]

Lisa Monaco briefs President Obama on the investigation of the 2013 Boston bombings, in the Diplomatic Reception Room before the President departed the White House, April 18, 2013

In 2009, Monaco was appointed by United States Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden to serve as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General; the top aide to the Deputy Attorney General.^[14] After Ogden left in February 2010, Monaco was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; leading the Justice Department division which oversees major counterterrorism and espionage cases, and authorizes the use of FISA warrants.^[15] Monaco has been involved in meetings and the failed attempts to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.^[16][17]

Counterterrorism advisor

On January 25, 2013, President Barack Obama announced he would name Monaco to be his Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the chief counterterrorism advisor to the President.^[18] Monaco succeeded John Brennan, who was nominated by Obama to become the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.^[19] Monaco took office on March 8, 2013, and became a statutory member of the United States Homeland Security Council.

On May 23, 2013, Daniel Klaidman, writing for the Daily Beast reported a "White House official" confirmed Monaco would "handle day-to-day responsibilities for Guantanamo."^[20]

In late July, 2014, Monaco answered a question as to whether the mandate to keep Guantanamo open would end when US troops had effectively retired from Guantanamo.^{[21][22][23][24]} Scholars at Lawfare interpreted Monaco's comment as a sign that the Obama Presidency would ask the United States Congress to pass legislation enabling Guantanamo to remain open after US involvement in the Afghan war ended.

References

• Announcement of appointment Washington Post January 25, 2013
• Meet With Lisa Monaco The Wall Street Journal February 21, 2013

External links

• Meet the Assistant Attorney General

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