John Ratcliffe

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John Lee Ratcliffe (born October 20, 1965) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2025. Ratcliffe served as the director of national intelligence from 2020 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Texas's fourth congressional district from 2015 to 2020, as the mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012, and as the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas from 2007 to 2008. Ratcliffe graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in 1986 and from Southern Methodist University's School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1989. Ratcliffe worked as a lawyer in private practice for fifteen years. In 2004, he was elected to serve as the mayor of Heath, Texas, a position he served in for eight years. That year, he joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas as the director of anti-terrorism and national security. Ratcliffe worked...

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