Christopher Fonzone

Chris Fonzone is currently a partner in Sidley Austin’s Washington D.C. office. Before entering private practice, he served as Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel to President Obama and the Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, where he advised officials on a range of legal issues related to national security and foreign policy. Over the course of his career, Fonzone has also served in legal roles at the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice and as a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and attended Cornell University and Harvard Law School.