Lisa Oudens Monaco was born on February 25,1968 and is an American attorney, former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th and current United States Deputy Attorney General since April 21,2021.
29 Facts About Lisa Monaco
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Lisa Monaco was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Mary Lou and Anthony Lisa Monaco, and was raised in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Lisa Monaco graduated from the Winsor School in Boston in 1986.
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Lisa Monaco worked 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.
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Lisa Monaco was a summer associate for the law firm Hogan and Hartson, LLP.
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Additionally, Lisa Monaco served as the editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable, a legal journal.
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From 1997 to 1998, Lisa Monaco worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Jane Richards Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, before she went on to work as counsel to then US Attorney General Janet Reno from 1998 to 2001.
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Lisa Monaco received Department of Justice Awards for Special Achievement in 2002,2003 and 2005.
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Lisa Monaco received the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional service for her work on the Enron Task Force, the department's highest award.
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Lisa Monaco was later chosen by Mueller to be his deputy chief of staff and then his chief of staff, a position she held until January 2009.
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In January 2009, Monaco was appointed by United States Deputy Attorney General David W Ogden to serve as Associate Deputy Attorney General focusing on national security issues.
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Lisa Monaco later served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, the top aide to the deputy attorney general, from February 2010 to June 2011, in an acting capacity until January 2011.
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On July 1,2011, Lisa Monaco took office as assistant attorney general for national security following her appointment by President Barack Obama, leading the Justice Department division which oversees major counterterrorism and espionage cases, as well as authorizes the use of FISA warrants.
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Lisa Monaco has been involved in meetings and attempts to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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On January 25,2013, President Barack Obama announced he would name Lisa Monaco to be his assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, the chief counterterrorism advisor to the President.
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Lisa Monaco succeeded John Brennan, who was nominated by Obama to become the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Lisa Monaco took office on March 8,2013, and became a statutory member of the United States Homeland Security Council.
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Lisa Monaco led initiatives to expand collaboration with the private sector to counter ISIL's messaging and abuse of online platforms while lifting up alternative narratives.
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On May 23,2013, Daniel Klaidman, writing for the Daily Beast reported a White House official confirmed Lisa Monaco would handle "day-to-day responsibilities" for Guantanamo.
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In late July 2014, Lisa Monaco answered a question as to whether the mandate to keep Guantanamo open would end when US troops had effectively retired from Guantanamo.
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Lisa Monaco drove the policy decision to create the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in 2015, to provide integrated all-source analysis of intelligence on foreign cyber threats and incidents affecting US national interests similar to the National Counterterrorism Center on terrorist threats.
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Lisa Monaco helped develop the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, which was released in February 2016, to guide the actions the US Government took over the remaining duration of the Obama Administration and to put in place a long-term cybersecurity strategy, both within the federal government and across the country.
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In July 2016, Lisa Monaco gave remarks at the International Conference on Cyber Security, outlining the Obama Administration's cyber policy and announcing its new directive laying out how the federal government responds to significant cyber incidents.
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Finally, over her tenure as President Obama's chief homeland security advisor, Lisa Monaco managed the United States response to Ebola and coordinated whole-of-government preparedness efforts to prevent its spread in the United States.
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In January 2017, Lisa Monaco led the Principal-Level Exercise, convening outgoing and incoming Principals across the US Government to share lessons learned during prior crises and discuss best practices in preparing for future crises.
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In 2017, Lisa Monaco joined CNN as a national security analyst.
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Lisa Monaco taught at NYU Law School and was a Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security as well as the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School.
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Lisa Monaco co-authored a piece in 2018 with public health expert Vin Gupta in Foreign Policy titled "The Next Pandemic Will Be Arriving Shortly", where she urged the US government to prepare for the possibility of a future pandemic.
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On January 6,2021, Lisa Monaco was nominated to serve as Deputy Attorney General, the second most powerful position in the Department of Justice.