Michael Ellis (attorney)

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Michael Jay Ellis (born September 1984) is an American lawyer and political operative who has served as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2025. Ellis additionally served as the agency's general counsel from September 2025 to January 2026. Ellis graduated from Dartmouth College in 2006 and from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2011. He clerked for judges Amul Thapar of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and Jeffrey Sutton of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Ellis additionally worked on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and later served as its general counsel. In March 2017, he became the senior associate counsel for national security issues at the Office of the White House Counsel and the deputy legal advisor of the National Security Council. In March 2020, Ellis was appointed the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council. In November, he was named as the general counsel of...

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