Matthew G. Olsen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew G. Olsen
Occupation	Prosecutor
Date Of Birth	Feb 21, 1962(1962-02-21)
Age	62
Birthplace	Fargo
Country	United States
Birth City	North Dakota
Horoscope	Aquarius

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.

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.

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Who is Matthew G. Olsen Dating?

According to our records, Matthew G. Olsen married to Fern Shepard. As of December 1, 2023, Matthew G. Olsen’s is not dating anyone.

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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.

Facts & Trivia

Matthew Ranked on the list of most popular Prosecutor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Matthew G. Olsen celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.

Top Facts about Matthew G. Olsen

1. Matthew Glen Olsen is the current Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.
2. Olsen was born in Fargo, North Dakota.
3. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
4. Olsen was appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division in 2006.
5. In 2009, he was appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder to become the Head of the Guantanamo Review Task Force.
6. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to become the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in 2011.
7. Olsen resigned from the Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2018 over immigration decisions to separate families.
8. He worked for the Washington Post and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
9. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1988 and has been a member of the District of Columbia Bar since 1990.
10. He briefly served as Associate Deputy Attorney General from March 2011 to July 2011.
11. He announced the creation of a new unit to help investigate and prosecute cases of domestic terrorism during a Senate hearing in January 2022.
12. He was a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team in November 2020.
13. He previously served on the Advisory Board of the National Security institute.
14. He lives in Kensington, Maryland with his wife Fern and their three children.
15. He currently works for IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.