Phillip E. Carter

Phillip E. Carter (born 1975) is an American lawyer, writer, and former officer in the United States Army. Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project. He is now senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security, and director of the CNAS research program on the Military, Veterans & Society.

Carter attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor's Degree there in 1997, and his Juris Doctor in 2004. Carter also received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 1996.

Carter practiced law as an associate at McKenna Long & Aldridge, first in Los Angeles, and later in New York City. He specialized in government contracts and national security law there, including representation of leading defense and aerospace contractors. He contributed to amicus briefs for FAIR v. Rumsfeld and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Carter took a leave of absence from his law firm in 2005-06, after being called to active duty by the Army, to serve in Iraq.

In June 2008, Carter took a leave of absence to join the Barack Obama campaign as its national veterans director. He returned to his position at McKenna Long & Aldridge in 2010 after resigning as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy.

In 2011, Carter left McKenna to join Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia, as the company's Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel.

In 2013, Carter left Caerus to join CNAS, a defense policy think tank in Washington, as senior fellow and counsel. At CNAS, Carter directs the Military, Veterans, and Society research program.

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