Nathan Sales

Nathan Alexander Sales is an American lawyer, academic, and government official who is served as the Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS within the U.S. Department of State from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming his current role, he was an associate professor at Syracuse University College of Law, where his fields of research included national security law, counterterrorism law, administrative law, and constitutional law. Sales was also of counsel at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis.[1]

Nathan Sales
Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS
In office
November 9, 2020 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJim Jeffrey
Succeeded byvacant
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
In office
August 10, 2017 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byTina Kaidanow
Succeeded byJohn T. Godfrey (acting)
Senior Official, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights
In office
September 29, 2017 – December 21, 2020
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded bySarah Sewall
Succeeded byEric Ueland
Personal details
Born
Nathan Alexander Sales

Canton, Ohio
EducationMiami University
Duke University School of Law
AwardsAttorney General's Award for Exceptional Service
Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award

Sales was also delegated the duties of Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights between September 2017 and December 2020.[2]

Education

Sales received his B.A. from Miami University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law. In law school, he was research editor of the Duke Law Journal. Sales was Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. He clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Government service
Sales prepares to sign his appointment papers to assume office on September 29, 2017.

Sales previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the United States Department of Homeland Security and senior counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the United States Department of Justice. In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Sales to serve as Coordinator for Counterterrorism. He was confirmed to this position by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.[3] In September 2017, he was further delegated the duties of Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.[4] He held this position until December 2020. Additionally, he was appointed Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in November 2020.[5]

References
  1. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts". The White House. June 9, 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. "On Nathan Sales's Service as Senior Official, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights". U.S. Department of State. November 9, 2020.
  3. https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/606
  4. "Acting Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Ambassador Nathan A. Sales Travels to Colombia". U.S. Department of State. January 19, 2020.
  5. "Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Nathan A. Sales Designated Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS". U.S. Department of State. November 9, 2020.
Government offices
Preceded by
Tina Kaidanow		 Coordinator for Counterterrorism
2017–2021		 Succeeded by
John T. Godfrey
Acting
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