Christopher R Kavanaugh

Christopher R. Kavanaugh is Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He is currently on detail from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, where he has served as an Assistant United States Attorney since 2014. In his role as Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Kavanaugh is the chief national security prosecutor, senior litigation counsel, and counsel to the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Kavanaugh was an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Since 2011, Mr. Kavanaugh has been an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches federal criminal practice and trial advocacy. Mr. Kavanaugh served as a law clerk for Judge James C. Cacheris on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Kavanaugh received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2006 and his B.S. in engineering, summa cum laude, from Georgia Tech in 2002.