Carl Risch
Carl C. Risch (born March 10, 1970) is an American lawyer and former government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs within the U.S. Department of State, as the acting chief of staff for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and as Deputy Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review within the U.S. Department of Justice. Risch was also a field office director for USCIS at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea and a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State. Early life and education Risch was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, the adopted son of an auto parts factory worker. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and earned a Juris Doctor from Penn State Dickinson Law in 1995. Career After graduating from law school, Risch worked as a litigation associate for the law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart. He went on to practice corporate law at Martson Deardorff Williams & Otto and to serve as an assistant adjunct professor of business law at Franklin & Marshall College. In 1999, Risch joined the United States Foreign Service. He managed