(AGENPARL) - Roma, 5 Giugno 2023 - (AGENPARL) – lun 05 giugno 2023 June 05, 2023 
RELEASE 23-064
*NASA Names New Agency General Counsel*
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Iris Lan serves as NASA’s chief legal officer and oversees its team of
attorneys responsible for all aspects of NASA’s legal affairs.
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday the selection of Iris Lan as
the agency’s new general counsel, effective immediately. She succeeds
Sumara Thompson-King, who retired from NASA last December.
“The Office of the General Counsel’s work often goes unseen,” said
Nelson. “I want to thank Scott Barber and Charles “Pete” Polen, both of
whom served as acting general counsel. Our team of attorneys, paralegals, and
professionals are critical to NASA fulfilling our mission to explore the
unknown in air and space, innovate for the benefit of humanity, and inspire
the world through discovery. With Iris at the helm, I am confident they will
continue to help NASA maintain our standing as the world’s premier space
agency.”
Before joining NASA, Lan was an associate deputy attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice, with responsibilities over the nation’s 93 U.S.
attorneys and the Department’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. As a
senior career official for more than a decade, she advised the deputy
attorney general and the attorney general on some of the most significant
legal and enforcement issues across the country. 
She began her career with the Justice Department as an assistant U.S.
attorney in the Southern District of New York, where Lan prosecuted many of
the nation’s most complex counterterrorism, counterintelligence, export
control, cyber intrusion, and corporate fraud cases. Later, she also was
deputy chief of the appellate section, supervising attorneys in briefing and
arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Lan graduated from Harvard University, where she received a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry and physics and a master’s degree in history of science
and graduated from Harvard Law School. Before joining the department,
Lan clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and served
as a commercial litigator in private practice.
Lan is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serving as an adviser
for the organization’s project on the law of compliance and enforcement for
organizations.
For more information about Lan, visit:
*https://www.nasa.gov/feature/iris-lan-nasa-general-counsel*
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