When the Department of Homeland Security first opened its doors seven years ago today, Joe D. Whitley was there as its first general counsel.
A former U.S. attorney in Macon and Atlanta who had served as acting associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, Whitley returned to Washington from Alston & Bird in the aftermath of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to help build the newly minted department from the ground up. He was soon joined by two other Atlanta lawyers, George A. Koenig and Elizabeth L. “Lisa” Branch.
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