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Matthew G. Olsen Biography
Matthew G. Olsen is one of the most popular and richest Prosecutor who was born on February 21, 1962 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Matthew Glen Olsen, born February 21, 1962, is an American prosecutor who was also the former Director at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
Olsen was born in Fargo (North Dakota) and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia. Olsen started his career as a District Court Judge Norma Holloway Johnson’s law clerk. He then entered private practice and worked as a trial lawyer for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division from 1992 to 1992.
Before his nomination as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Olsen served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center from 2001 to 2011.
He moved to the United States Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia where he was a federal prosecutor and served as the first director of the Office’s National Security Section from 2004 to 2005. In 2006 Olsen was appointed by President George W. Bush to be the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s National Security Division, where he served until 2009, when he became the acting director of the Division. In 2009, he was appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder to become the Head of the Guantanamo Review Task Force, a commission set up to oversee the legal justifications of the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Olsen later briefly served as Associate Deputy Attorney General and as the General Counsel of the National Security Agency.
Olsen joined US Department of Justice as a trial lawyer for the Department’s Civil Rights Division in 1992.
| Name | Matthew G. Olsen |
| First Name | Matthew |
| Last Name | Olsen |
| Occupation | Prosecutor |
| Birthday | February 21 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
| Place of Birth | Fargo |
| Home Town | North Dakota |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Fern Shepard |
| Children(s) | Three |
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Born to parents Van and Myrna Olsen in Fargo, North Dakota, Olsen’s family moved to Washington D.C. when he was three years old, growing up with his two sisters; Jennifer and Susan. His father, who died in 2008, worked as the chief of staff for North Dakota Senator Mark Andrews in the late 1960s. Olsen’s grandfather immigrated from Norway and moved to North Dakota at the age of sixteen.
Matthew G. Olsen Net Worth
Matthew G. Olsen is one of the richest Prosecutor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew G. Olsen's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He graduated from high school in 1980 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Virginia in 1984. Before attending Harvard Law School, he worked as a copy assistant for the Washington Post and later became an executive editor of Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Olsen was a summer associate at Schwalb Donnenfeld, Bray & Silbert in Washington D.C. in 1986 while he was away from Harvard. After briefly working at McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, Olsen was appointed Summer Associate for Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Juneau, Alaska, in 1987. He was admitted to Maryland Bar in 1988, and has been a member of District of Columbia Bar ever since 1990. From 1988 to 1990, he clerked for Norma Holloway Johnson who was a District Judge at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Olsen began private practice in 1991 as an Associate at Arnold & Porter.
He joined the United States Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia in 1994, working as a federal prosecutor. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy Chief for the Organized Crime and Narcotics Trafficking Section within the U.S. Attorney’s Office and worked as a Special Counsel to FBI Director Robert Mueller from 2004 to 2005. In 2005, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Kenneth L. Wainstein, appointed Olsen as the Chief of the newly created National Security Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he headed an eleven-member division that prosecuted suspected terrorists, and those who are suspected of illegal arms and human trafficking.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Prosecutor |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
On July 1, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Olsen to replace Michael Leiter Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He was cleared by the Senate Intelligence Committee on August 1, 2011 following confirmation in a voice vote by the United States Senate on August 2, 2011. The Counterterrorism Center is a part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and was created in the aftermath of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks to provide terrorism information to the intelligence community. After leaving government the subject has worked for IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.
Olsen briefly served as Associate Deputy Attorney General from March 2011 to July 2011, before leaving the Justice Department and joining the National Security Agency as the General Counsel, the NSA’s chief legal adviser.
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Olsen was appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s National Security Division, where he served from 2006 to 2009, and was the acting director of the division from January to March 2009. Olsen was in charge of the Justice Department’s management of intelligence operations and oversight, and helped oversee the expansion of the National Security Division’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. During his tenure, Olsen helped coordinate the expansion between the intelligence community and federal prosecutors in using intelligence from clandestine operations and warrantless surveillance in criminal cases. The actions were criticized by civil liberties advocates for threatening privacy rights, with Olsen saying that “We want to make sure that everyone knows what each other’s doing,” and that the Department of Justice “wants to make sure that we’re taking full advantage of this very valuable information.” He voiced his support and helped craft legislation for the 2008 expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was in charge of coordinating other FISA-related litigation.
Olsen was once a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. but resigned on July 18, 2018 over immigration decisions to separate families.
Who is Matthew G. Olsen Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Matthew G. Olsen. You may help us to build the dating records for Matthew G. Olsen!On July 1, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Olsen to become the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Olsen was confirmed by the Senate on August 16, 2011. He left that post in July 2014.
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