Phil Carter

Phil Carter
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy
In office
April 27, 2009 – December 2009
PresidentBarack Obama
SecretaryRobert Gates
Preceded bySandra Hodgkinson
Succeeded byWilliam K. Lietzau
Personal details
SpouseDemocratic
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (B.A., J.D.)
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of service1997-2006[1]
RankCaptain
Battles/warsIraq War
War in Afghanistan

Phillip Eugene Carter[2] is an American lawyer, writer, and former officer in the United States Army.[3][4] Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project.[citation needed] He was senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security, and director of the CNAS research program on the Military, Veterans & Society. Beginning September 2018, he served as the Director of the Personnel & Resources Program at the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center in Washington, D.C.[1] Carter now works as corporate counsel for Google, supporting the company's public sector business, and teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

  1. ^ a b "LinkedIn Profile".
  2. ^ "Phillip Eugene Carter Lawyer Profile on Martindale.com". www.martindale.com.
  3. ^ Carol Rosenberg (April 30, 2009). "Critic of detainee policy takes a top job at Pentagon". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on May 24, 2024.
  4. ^ Brad Greenberg (January 1, 2007). "Renaissance Soldier: Phillip Carter". UCLA Magazine. Archived from the original on September 28, 2008.