Nathan Sales

Nathan Sales
Nathan Sales
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; August 10, 2017
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Tina Kaidanow
Personal details
Born	Nathan Alexander Sales; Canton, Ohio
Education	Miami University; Duke University School of Law
Awards	Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service; Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award

Nathan Alexander Sales is an American lawyer, academic, and government official who is currently serving as Coordinator for Counterterrorism within the U.S. Department of State. Prior to assuming his current role, he was an associate professor at Syracuse University College of Law, where his fields of research included national security law, counterterrorism law, administrative law, and constitutional law. Sales was also of counsel at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis.[1]

Education

Sales received his B.A. from Miami University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law. In law school, he was research editor of the Duke Law Journal. Sales was Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. He clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Sales prepares to sign his appointment papers to assume office on September 29, 2017.

Sales previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the United States Department of Homeland Security and senior counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the United States Department of Justice. In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Sales to serve as Coordinator for Counterterrorism. He was confirmed to this position by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.[2]

Government offices
Preceded by Tina Kaidanow	Coordinator for Counterterrorism 2017–present	Incumbent

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