US President Donald Trump has appointed Indian-American attorney Uttam Dhillon to a key White House position on ethics and compliance matters.
Dhillon served as Chief Oversight Counsel for the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.
He has been appointed as Special Assistant to the President.
In this position, he would be part of the legal team to serve under White House Counsel Donald F McGahn with respect to compliance and ethics matters.
Prior to joining Financial Services, Dhillon served as chief of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement.
He previously worked as an Associate Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice.
He was also Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security.
Previous posts include Policy Director for the US House of Representatives Policy Committee, and as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles.
Dhillon graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987.
