Robert Phillip Storch is an American lawyer and government official serving as the inspector general in the

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under Joe Biden. He previously served as the inspector general of the

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Education

Storch earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from

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in 1982 and a

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from

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in 1986.

Career

After law school, he clerked for

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of the

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. From 1995 to 2012, Storch worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York, where he served as deputy criminal chief and counsel to the U.S. attorney. He was a DOJ Resident Legal Advisor in Ukraine from 2007 to 2009. Storch has also served as chief of the Appellate Division and senior litigation counsel, as the District of Columbia's Anti-Terrorism coordinator, at the Public Integrity Section of the

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. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District of Florida and worked as an associate at

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. He was previously the deputy inspector general at the

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, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General Whistleblower Ombudsperson, and chairman of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Whistleblower Ombudsman Working Group. Storch was nominated by President Obama in November 2016 and in January 2017 to become Inspector General of the

and renominated for the position by President Trump on June 19, 2017. The

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confirmed Storch's nomination on December 21, 2017. He assumed the role on January 2, 2018, and resigned on December 6, 2022. Storch was nominated by President Biden in November 2021 to become

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, a position for which no nominee had received Senate confirmation since 2016. The Senate confirmed the nomination on November 30, 2022, in a 92–3 vote. Storch assumed the role on December 6, 2022.

References

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