Appointment of Kathleen Day Koch as Associate Counsel to the President

The President today announced the appointment of Kathleen Day Koch to be Associate Counsel to the President at the White House.

Since 1987 Ms. Koch has served as an Assistant Counsel in the Office of the Counsel to the President. Prior to this, she was a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Department of Commerce, 1984-1987; an attorney and deputy ethics official for the Merit Systems Protection Board, 1979-1984; and an attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1977-1979.

Ms. Koch received a B.S. degree in 1971 from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and a J.D. degree in 1977 from the University of Chicago School of Law. She was born November 27, 1948, in St. Louis, MO, and resides with her three children in Annandale, VA.