Daniel J Metcalfe

Daniel J. Metcalfe began working for the United States Department of Justice as a teenage intern in 1971, then as a law clerk in the Attorney General's Office during law school and as a Trial Attorney specializing in Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act litigation. For more than 25 years, he led the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy, holding responsibility for transparency and privacy throughout the Federal Government and directly supervising the defense of more than...See more

Daniel J. Metcalfe began working for the United States Department of Justice as a teenage intern in 1971, then as a law clerk in the Attorney General's Office during law school and as a Trial Attorney specializing in Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act litigation. For more than 25 years, he led the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy, holding responsibility for transparency and privacy throughout the Federal Government and directly supervising the defense of more than 500 FOIA and Privacy Act litigation cases. In 2007, he retired from government service to become a professor at American University's Washington College of Law, where he taught secrecy law for a decade and established the first academic center on secrecy and transparency at any law school in the world. He is well known as a leading expert on freedom of information both nationwide and internationally. See less