Philip Perry

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Philip Jonathan Perry (born October 16, 1964) is an American attorney and was a political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush. He was acting associate attorney general at the Department of Justice (the third ranked Department official, responsible for overseeing the Department's five civil litigating divisions), general counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. (Perry was confirmed by the U.S. Senate unanimously for that position.) He is a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., and has served as lead counsel on many matters of national importance. He has handled matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and U.S. District Courts across the country. He is known both for his work litigating biotechnology issues and his work on constitutional and federal regulatory matters. Perry was named a "Litigation Trailblazer" by The National Law Journal in 2018 for his "remarkable successes" in litigation, and has seen continued successes in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, winning cases in both federal appellate and trial courts.^[3] He also has substantial experience with Congressional investigations: he served as Senate Counsel to the Thompson Committee in 1997, and has also dealt with such investigations during his time in the Executive Branch and private practice.^[4] He is the husband of former Representative Liz Cheney and the son-in-law of former Vice President Dick Cheney.