{"id":373332,"date":"2023-06-25T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=people&p=373332"},"modified":"2024-03-06T16:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:36:45","slug":"nasa-general-counsel-iris-lan","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/nasa-general-counsel-iris-lan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris Lan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-bio-intro maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-bio-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"hds-bio-intro-container grid-row grid-container grid-container-block padding-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-4 desktop:grid-col-3\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-bio-thumbnail width-10 tablet:width-card desktop:width-card-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?w=640\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"Iris Lan\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 57% 4%; object-position: 57% 4%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?resize=240,300 240w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?resize=768,960 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?resize=819,1024 819w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?resize=320,400 320w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?resize=480,600 480w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/iris-lan-official-photo.jpeg?resize=720,900 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-7 desktop:grid-col-9 grid-row margin-0 padding-0\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-1 desktop:margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"display-60 display-block width-full\">Iris Lan<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg padding-0 margin-0 color-carbon-60\">NASA General Counsel<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Iris Lan serves as NASA\u2019s chief legal officer and oversees its team of attorneys responsible for all aspects of NASA\u2019s legal affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before this appointment, Lan was an associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, with responsibilities over the nation\u2019s 93 U.S. attorneys and the department\u2019s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. As a senior career official for over a decade, she advised the deputy attorney general and the attorney general on some of the most significant legal and enforcement issues across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lan is a graduate of Harvard University, where she received her bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry and physics, master\u2019s degree in history of science, and law degree. Thereafter, Lan clerked for Judge William C. Bryson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and served as a commercial litigator in private practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lan joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted many of the nation’s most complex counterterrorism, counterintelligence, export control, cyber intrusion, and corporate fraud cases. Later, she was also deputy chief of the appellate section, supervising attorneys in briefing and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lan also previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice on the National Security Division\u2019s leadership team and in the Office of Legal Counsel, where she provided advice to other cabinet-level agencies on statutory interpretation issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lan is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI), where she is also an adviser for ALI\u2019s project on the law of compliance and enforcement for organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris Lan serves as NASA\u2019s chief legal officer and oversees its team of attorneys responsible for all aspects of NASA\u2019s legal affairs. 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