Counselor to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Katherine Mooney Carroll, Returns To Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced today that Katherine Mooney Carroll, until recently the Counselor to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, will return to the firm as a partner on May 8. She will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and will focus on global banking and regulatory matters. Katherine joined the Department of Defense in April 2016 and served as a senior advisor to Secretary Carter on a broad range of issues, including cybersecurity and related intelligence matters, the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, and the development and implementation of Secretary Carter’s transformative “Force of the Future” initiatives. She joined Cleary Gottlieb as an associate in 2001 and became a partner in 2012.