Rogers joins an unofficial list of people under consideration for the FBI’s top job, according to several current and past administration officials. One of the leading candidates is Lisa Monaco, who oversaw the Justice Department’s National Security Division before becoming Obama’s counterterrorism adviser in March. If chosen, Monaco would be the first woman to head the bureau in its 105-year history.
Monaco has also served in the FBI, although not as an agent. She worked as a counselor and deputy chief of staff to Mueller in 2007 and served as his chief of staff from 2007 to 2009. Monaco graduated from Harvard, worked for Biden and got her law degree from University of Chicago.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Monaco
Monaco attended Harvard University, graduating with her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in American History and Literature, in 1990.[3] After graduating, she worked as a research associate for The Wilson Quarterly at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1990 to 1991, and as a senior associate for the Health Care Advisory Board, a healthcare advisory group, from 1991 to 1992.[4] She worked for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1992 to 1994 for then chairman Joe Biden as a research coordinator, and worked on the Violence Against Women Act;[5] before enrolling into the University of Chicago Law School where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable.[6]
During her time at the University of Chicago, she briefly worked as an intern for District Court Judge Wendell P. Gardner, Jr., on the D.C. Superior Court and as an intern for the United States Department of Justice in 1995.[7] She worked as an intern for the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in 1996, and entered private practice as a summer associate for the law firm Hogan and Hartson, LLP, before receiving her Juris Doctor in 1997.[8] She was admitted to the New York City Bar Association in 1998.
United States Department of Justice
From 1997 to 1998, Monaco worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Jane Richards Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and as the Counsel to then Attorney General Janet Reno from 1998 to 2001.[9] From 2001 to 2007, she worked in the United States Attorney's office for the District of Columbia, where she was as an assistant prosecuting attorney, and was appointed as a special prosecutor, co-leading the trail counsel for the Justice Department's Enron Task Force, from 2004 to 2006.[10] Monaco received Department of Justice Awards for Special Achievement in 2002, 2003 and 2005.[11] After the end of the Enron trial and the Justice Department's disbandment of the special task force, Monaco worked as a special counselor to FBI Director Robert Mueller. She was later chosen by Mueller to work as a full time counselor and as his Deputy Chief of Staff from May to September 2007, when she was appointed by Muller as his Chief of Staff; a position she held until January 2009.[12]
In 2009, Monaco was appointed by United States Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden to serve as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General; the top aide to the Deputy Attorney General.[13] After Ogden left in February 2010, Monaco was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; leading the Justice Department division which oversees major counterterrorism and espionage cases, and authorizes the use of FISA warrants.[14] Monaco has been involved in meetings and the failed attempts to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[15][16]
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