Courtney Simmons Elwood
Courtney Simmons Elwood is an American attorney who is the General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency. Prior to assuming her post at the CIA, she was a partner with the firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick. She joined this firm in 1996, after clerking for Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1995 Term and for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Elwood has served as an associate counsel to the president, deputy counsel to the vice president, and deputy chief of staff and counselor to the attorney general. In March 2017, she was announced as President Donald Trump's nominee to become General Counsel of the CIA. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 67–33 on June 6, 2017.Personal life
On November 23, 1996, she married John Elwood, also a Yale-trained lawyer, in Alexandria, Virginia.
