Caroline D. Krass

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Caroline D. Krass
General Counsel of the Department of Defense
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2, 2021
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Paul C. Ney Jr.
General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office March 13, 2014 – May 2017
President	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	Robert Eatinger (acting) Stephen W. Preston.
Succeeded by	Courtney Simmons Elwood
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
Acting
In office January 2011 – September 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Jonathan Cedarbaum
Succeeded by	Virginia A. Seitz
Personal details
Born	Caroline Diane Krass (1968-01-05) January 5, 1968 (age 56) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Spouse	William Passmore
Education	Stanford University (BA) Yale University (JD)

Caroline Diane Krass (born January 5, 1968) is an American attorney and government official who currently serves as the General Counsel of the Department of Defense.^[1]

Krass was a partner at the Washington office of the Los Angeles–based law firm Gibson Dunn (formerly Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher). She served as General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency from 2014 to 2017, and prior to that as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, and briefly as the Acting Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice. She has also been a lawyer in the State Department, the Treasury Department, United States National Security Council, and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.