On June 3, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that NASUSA member Neil MacBride is his nominee for General Counsel, Department of Treasury. MacBride is currently a litigation partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he serves as head of its Washington, DC office and as co-head of the Firm’s Government Investigations Practice.

Before entering private practice, MacBride spent extensive time as a government official on law enforcement, national security, and financial enforcement matters.  He served in the Obama-Biden Administration, first as an Associate Deputy Attorney General for criminal enforcement in the U.S. Department of Justice and then as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. MacBride earlier served as Chief Counsel to then-Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.  He also served on the Biden-Harris and the Obama-Biden Transition Teams.  Earlier in his career, MacBride served as General Counsel to the Business Software Alliance and practiced law at the Washington, DC law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand.  He began his public service career clerking for the Honorable Henry C. Morgan, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

MacBride graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and Houghton College.  He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Christina Jackson MacBride and their three children.