Avril Haines

Avril Danica Haines ( born August 29, 1969) is an American lawyer and high-ranking government official and since August 2013 Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) and the first woman in the top job. She previously worked as a legal adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House.

Childhood, Youth and Education

Haines grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan (New York City). She attended Hunter College High School and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago ( 1992) and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center ( 2001).

Career

From 2001 to 2002 she was at the Hague Conference on Private International Law ( HCCH ) as a legal consultant and in connection to the 2003 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit operates. From 2003 to 2006 she worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State ( Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry).

From 2010 to 2013, it was legal advisor in the Office of the White House Counsel as Deputy Assistant to the President ( German Deputy Assistant to the President ) and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs ( German Deputy Legal Adviser to the President on matters of national security ).

Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA)

On April 18, 2013 President Barack Obama nominated Haines as Legal Adviser to the Department of State to occupy with her ​​vacant by the departure of Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School site. On June 13, he withdrew her nomination and appointed them instead to the new Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Observers called this Obama's decision a "surprise" because Haines has never worked for the Agency in advance.