The Office of General Counsel provides legal and policy advice to the Secretary and other senior Departmental officials. The General Counsel also is the head of the Treasury Legal Division, a separate bureau within the Department that includes all legal counsels and staff of the Treasury Departmental Offices and Treasury bureaus (except for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Offices of the Inspectors General). The office was preceded by the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury (1789–1817),

First Comptroller of the Treasury The Comptroller of the Treasury was an official of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1789 to 1817. According to section III of the Act of Congress establishing the Treasury Department, it is the comptroller's duty to :''superintend ...

(1817–1820), Agent of the Treasury (1820–1830), and Solicitor of the Treasury (1830–1934).

Neil MacBride Neil Harvey MacBride (born October 14, 1965) is an American attorney who is the General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury in the Biden Administration. He previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virgini ...

has served as General Counsel since February, 2022.

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Office of the General Counsel An office is a space where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific ...

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