In a flurry of nominations last week, President Donald Trump’s administration continued to tap in-house counsel from both government agencies and private companies for key appointments. Among the most recent is James Byrne, who Trump has nominated as general counsel to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Byrne is associate general counsel and chief privacy officer at Lockheed Martin Corp. He joined Lockheed Martin in August 2008 from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, where he served as the deputy special counsel. Byrne was previously the general counsel and assistant inspector general for investigations with the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent government agency that monitored the use of U.S. funds in Iraq.
