Nathan Swinton currently serves as Chief Counsel for Industry and Security, where he leads the Office of the Chief Counsel for Industry and Security in providing a wide array of legal services in support of the Bureau of Industry and Security. 

Prior to joining Commerce, Mr. Swinton served in the Department of Justice for fourteen years. Most recently, he served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security and DOJ’s National Coordinator for the Disruptive Technology Strike Force from 2022-2024. Prior to that, he was a Trial Attorney with the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, where he focused on investigations and prosecutions related to counterintelligence, cyber, export control, and foreign agent matters. He was also Senior Trial Counsel in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, where he defended the Executive Branch in challenges to federal statutes, regulations, and agency actions in cases involving matters of constitutional and administrative law.  In 2019, Mr. Swinton was awarded the Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy with the New Zealand government.

Following his graduation from law school, he clerked for a federal magistrate judge in the District of Wyoming, for a district court judge in the Western District of Tennessee, and for a circuit court judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been a member of the Georgetown Law adjunct faculty since 2015.

Visit: Office of the Chief Counsel for Bureau of Industry and Security