Samuel T. Walsh is an attorney and former Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In his more than six years at the Department of Energy during the Obama Administration, he also served as Associate General Counsel and Senior Legal Advisor to the General Counsel. Walsh is currently a lawyer in private practice at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP. Prior to his service at the Department of Energy, he also worked as an associate in the energy group at Hogan Lovells LLP and as a law clerk to the Hon. Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Walsh holds a B.A. from Yale College, an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Originally from New York, Walsh now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and two children.