Arnold & Porter lawyers and other professionals are often distinguished by a record of government service. Many of the attorneys and other professionals currently working at the firm have served in the ranks of government on the state, national, and international levels.

Richard M. Alexander

• Enforcement and Compliance Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Marcus A. Asner

• Chief, Major Crimes and Computer Hacking/Intellectual Property Unit, US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
• Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Richard E. Baltz

• Deputy Chief, Office of Tender Offers, Division of Corporation Finance, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

John P. Barker

• Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation Controls, US Department of State
• Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Controls, US Department of State

Kevin F. Barnard

• Deputy Superintendent of Banks and General Counsel, New York State Banking Department

John B. Bellinger, III 

• Legal Adviser, Department of State under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
• Senior Associate Counsel to the President  and Legal Adviser, National Security Council
• Counsel for National Security Matters, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice
• Of Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• General Counsel of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities, US Intelligence Community
• Special Assistant to Director (William Webster), Central Intelligence Agency

Blake A. Biles

• Attorney, Offices of Water and General Enforcement, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Attorney, Office of General Counsel, EPA
• Director, Office of Toxic Substances, EPA

Lisa S. Blatt

• Assistant to the Solicitor General, US Department of Justice
• Assistant General Counsel, US Department of Energy
• Special Assistant to the General Counsel, US Department of Energy

Brooksley E. Born

• Chair, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Anthony J. Burba

• Special Trial Attorney, Criminal Fraud Section, US Department of Justice
• Presidential Management Fellow, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Howard N. Cayne

• Enforcement and Compliance Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Bruce M. Chadwick

• Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

Martha L. Cochran

• Attorney and Special Counsel, Division of Enforcement, US Securities and Exchange Commission
• Chief Counsel and Staff Director, US Senate Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
• Legislative Director and Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Senator Christopher Dodd
• Senior Finance Counsel, US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance

James W. Cooper

• Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia
• Acting Chief of the National Security Section, US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia
• Trial Attorney, Public Integrity Section, US Department of Justice
• Counsel, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Lawrence E. Culleen

• Chief of Staff to the Assistant Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Acting Director, Registration Division in the Office of Pesticide Programs, EPA
• Chief, New Chemicals Branch, EPA
• Director, Asbestos-In-Schools Loan and Grant Program, EPA

Eli Whitney Debevoise II

• US Executive Director, The World Bank
• Member, Maryland Port Commission

Paolo Di Rosa

• Head, US State Department, Office of Legal Adviser for Western Hemisphere Affairs
• Member, US Senior Executive Service

A. Patrick Doyle

• General Counsel, Federal Home Loan Bank Board

James R. Farrand

• Assistant General Counsel, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Deborah L. Feinstein

• Special Assistant to the Director; Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Attorney Advisor, Commissioner Dennis Yao, FTC

Richard M. Firestone

• Chief, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission

Robert Alan Garrett

• Assistant to the General Counsel, Office of the Secretary of the Army
• Staff Counsel, Special Commission on the United States Military Academy

Michael E. Ginsberg

• Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the Bureau of Industry and Security, US Department of Commerce

Joel M. Gross

• Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, US Department of Justice

Thomas A. Gustafson PhD

• Deputy Director, Center for Medicare Management at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Director, Hospital & Ambulatory Policy Group, CMS
• Deputy Director, Office of Research and Demonstrations, CMS
• Deputy Director, Office of Legislation, CMS

Luc Gyselen

• Senior Official with the Directorate-General for Competition at the European Commission

Drew A. Harker

• Professional Staff Member, US Senate Committee on Armed Services

Kathleen Harris

• Head of the Fraud Business Group, UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
• Senior Strategic Policy Adviser, Attorney General’s Office

John D. Hawke, Jr.

• Comptroller of the Currency
• Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance

Paul A. Howard

• Legislative Assistant to US Senator Susan Collins

Brian D. Israel

• Honors Trial Attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, US Department of Justice

Richard A. Johnson

• Associate General Counsel for International Trade, US Department of Commerce

Jeremy Karpatkin

• Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy
• Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Manager, Rocky Flats Field Office, U.S. Department of Energy
• Chief of Staff, United States Senator Paul Simon (D-Illinois)

Matthew Keiser

• Senior Counsel for Employment, Office of the Chief Counsel for Employment in the US Senate

Ronald D. Lee

• Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice
• General Counsel, National Security Agency

Maurice A. Leiter

• Assistant US Attorney, Los Angeles

Anna N. Manville

• Examining Attorney, US Patent & Trademark Office

Stephen Marsh

• Assistant US Attorney, Southern District of Georgia

Jonathan Martel

• Office of General Counsel, US Environmental Protection Agency

Brian C. McCormally

• Director, Enforcement and Compliance Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
• Assistant Director of Enforcement, OCC
• Senior legal positions, Office of Thrift Supervision and its predecessor, the Federal Home Loan Bank

Nancy G. Milburn

• Assistant United States Attorney, Civil Division, Southern District of New York
• Chief, Tax Unit, US Attorney's Office
• Deputy Chief, Civil Division, US Attorney's Office

Bruce L. Montgomery

• Trial Attorney, US Department of Justice

C. Scott Morrow

• Specialized in soliciting and administering government contracts at the Department of the Navy

John N. Nassikas

• Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia

Trenton H. Norris

• Legislative Assistant (Appropriations, Environmental, Public Lands, and Transportation), US Senator Wyche Fowler, Jr.

Evelina J. Norwinski

• Assistant Federal Public Defender

Kirk Ogrosky

• Deputy Chief for Health Care Fraud, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice
• Assistant United States Attorney, Miami, Florida
• Assistant Attorney General, Kentucky

Donna E. Patterson

• Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice

Dirk C. Phillips

• Appellate Attorney, Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice (DOJ)

Robert Pitofsky

• Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Commissioner, FTC
• Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC

Vernessa T. Pollard

• Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement, Office of Chief Counsel, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Paul E. Pompeo

• Staff Counsel, Postal Service Board of Contract Appeals

Alan E. Reider

• Chief, Review Policy Branch, Office of Professional Standards Review Organizations, Health Care Financing Administration, US Department of Health & Human Services

Christopher S. Rhee

• Special Assistant to Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
• Assistant US Attorney
• Counsel, US Senate Judiciary Committee

Richard L. Rosen

• Chief, Communication and Finance Section, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
• Assistant Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Attorney Advisor to the Chairman,  FTC

Stanford G. Ross

• Commissioner, Social Security Administration

Eric A. Rubel

• General Counsel, US Consumer Product Safety Commission

Paul M. Rudolf MD

• Senior Advisor for Medical and Health Policy, Office of the Commissioner US Food and Drug Administration

Allison B. Rumsey

• Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, US Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Honors Trial Attorney, Natural Resources Section, DOJ

Stephen M. Sacks

• Assistant to the General Counsel, Department of the Army

Ronald A. Schechter

• Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, US Department of Justice

Scott B. Schreiber

• Special Counsel, US Congress, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
• Special Assistant Counsel, US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Kathleen Scott

• Associate Attorney, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement, US Department of the Treasury
• Assistant Counsel, NY State Banking Department

Andrew J. Shipe

• Division of Market Regulation, US Securities and Exchange Commission
• Enforcement and Regulatory Divisions, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• Prosecutor, Office of the Bronx District Attorney, New York City

Jeffrey H. Smith

• General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
• Member, Commission to Review the Roles and Missions of the Armed Services
• Chair, Joint Security Commission
• Chief of the Clinton Transition Team at the Department of Defense
• General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee
• Assistant Legal Advisor, US Department of State
• Senator Sam Nunn's designee to the Iran/Contra Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• As an Army Judge Advocate General officer, he served as the Pentagon's lawyer for the Panama Canal negotiations

Claudius O. Sokenu

• Senior Counsel, Division of Enforcement, US Securities and Exchange Commission
• Staff Attorney, Honors Program, Division of Enforcement, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Jonathan L. Stern

• Chief of the Trial Division, District of Columbia Public Defender Service

Craig A. Stewart

• Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
• Chief Appellate Attorney, US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
• Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
• Chief of the Narcotics Unit, US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York

Michael D. Trager

• Division of Enforcement, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Lincoln Tsang

• Nonexecutive Director, Board of National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
• Commissioner, British Pharmacopoeia Commission
• Vice Chairman, Nomenclature Committee, British Pharmacopoeia Commission
• Vice Chairman, Biological and Biotechnology Specialist Group, British Pharmacopoeia Commission
• Member, UK Ministerial Industry Strategy Group Sub-group Forum
• Head of Biologicals and Biotechnology, UK Regulatory Authority

Jim Turner

• Former Congressman; Texas' 2nd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives Member, Committees on Homeland Security, Armed Services, and Government Reform. Ranking member, the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and Ranking Member of the Terrorism Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee
• Member, Texas State Senate
• Member, Texas House of Representatives
• Chief of Staff and Chief Legislative Liaison to Texas Governor Mark White

Daniel Waldman

• General Counsel, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Robert N. Weiner

• Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice
• Senior Counsel in the White House Counsel's Office

Baruch Weiss

• Acting Deputy General Counsel, US Department of Homeland Security
• Associate General Counsel, US Department of Homeland Security
• Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement, US Department of the Treasury
• Senior Trial Counsel, United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York
• Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney, United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York
• Acting Chief of Major Crimes, United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York
• Chief of General Crimes, United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York

Charles R. Wenner

• Special Counsel to the Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Division of Corporation Finance, SEC
• Staff, Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure, SEC

Samuel M. Witten

• Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, US Department of State
• Deputy Legal Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, US Department of State
• Acting Director, Office of War Crimes Issues, US Department of State
• Assistant Legal Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Office of the Legal Adviser, US Department of State
• Legal Counsel to the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, US Department of State
• Director, Heathrow Airport Arbitration Team, US Department of State
• Trial Attorney, Foreign Commerce Section, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice

Peter L. Zimroth

• Corporation Counsel, City of New York
• Chief Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan
• Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York