Robert Storch
Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 6, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded bySean O'Donnell (acting)
Inspector General of the National Security Agency
In office
January 2, 2018 – December 6, 2022
PresidentDonald Trump
Joe Biden
Preceded byRussell Decker (acting)
Personal details
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Columbia University (JD)

Robert Phillip Storch[1] is an American lawyer and government official serving as the inspector general in the United States Department of Defense under Joe Biden. He previously served as the inspector general of the National Security Agency.

Education

Storch earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1982 and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1986.[2]

Career

After law school, he clerked for William Duffy Keller of the Central District of California. From 1995 to 2012, Storch worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York, where he served as deputy criminal chief and counsel to the U.S. attorney. He was a DOJ Resident Legal Advisor in Ukraine from 2007 to 2009. Storch has also served as chief of the Appellate Division and senior litigation counsel, as the District of Columbia's Anti-Terrorism coordinator, at the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District of Florida and worked as an associate at Covington & Burling.[3] He was previously the deputy inspector general at the United States Department of Justice, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General Whistleblower Ombudsperson, and chairman of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Whistleblower Ombudsman Working Group.[4]

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III administers the oath of office to Robert P. Storch, the Department of Defense’s new Inspector General, at the Pentagon Washington, D.C., Dec. 14, 2022

Storch was nominated by President Obama in November 2016 and in January 2017 to become Inspector General of the National Security Agency and renominated for the position by President Trump on June 19, 2017.[3] The Senate confirmed Storch's nomination on December 21, 2017.[5] He assumed the role on January 2, 2018, and resigned on December 6, 2022.

Storch was nominated by President Biden in November 2021 to become Inspector General of the Department of Defense,[6] a position for which no nominee had received Senate confirmation since 2016.[7] The Senate confirmed the nomination on November 30, 2022, in a 92–3 vote.[8] Storch assumed the role on December 6, 2022.[7]

References

  1. ^ "PN1368 — Robert Phillip Storch — Department of Defense — 117th Congress (2021-2022)". U.S. Congress. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Robert P. Storch" (PDF). U.S. House of Representatives. April 25, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration". whitehouse.gov. June 16, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017 – via National Archives. Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the White House.
  4. ^ Nelson, Steven (June 20, 2017). "NSA May Finally Get Independent Internal Watchdog". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  5. ^ "Robert Storch Confirmed as National Security Agency Inspector General". www.nsa.gov. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  6. ^ "PN1368 - Nomination of Robert Phillip Storch for Department of Defense, 117th Congress (2021-2022)". Library of Congress. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Robert Storch Assumes the Role of Department of Defense Inspector General". United States Department of Defense. December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  8. ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Robert Phillip Storch, of the District of Columbia, to be Inspector General, Department of Defense)". United States Senate. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
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