Gene P. Hamilton

Gene Hamilton serves as Executive Director, Executive Vice President, and General Counsel of America First Legal Foundation. Prior to AFL, Gene served as Counselor to the Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice from 2017-2021—providing legal advice, counsel, and strategic guidance to the Attorney General and other officials throughout the Department of Justice. While serving as Counselor to the Attorney General, Gene advised on and participated in litigation, regulatory actions, and policymaking on high-priority issues for the Trump Administration. Before his service at the Department of Justice, Gene served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security; as General Counsel to Senator Jeff Sessions on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; as Assistant Chief Counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and as an Attorney-Advisor in the Secretary’s Honors Program for Attorneys at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which included work in the Office of General Counsel’s Operations and Enforcement Law Division, the Intelligence Law Division, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Transportation Security Administration.

Gene graduated from the Washington and Lee School of Law magna cum laude and Order of the Coif and has a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the University of Georgia.