Ivan K. Fong

Ivan Fong
General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security
In office May 2009 – October 2012
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	David Martin (acting)[1]
Succeeded by	John Sandweg (acting)[2][3]
Personal details
Born	Ivan Kenneth Fong (1961-08-03) August 3, 1961 (age 63) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Sharon Ty
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS) Stanford University (JD) University of Oxford (BCL)

Ivan Kenneth Fong (born August 3, 1961)[4] is an American attorney who was general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security. He was general counsel of 3M company from October 2012 until February 2022, when he became executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Medtronic.

Ivan K. Fong
Chinese	方富宇
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fāng Fùyǔ

Education

Fong earned a bachelor's in chemical engineering and a master's in chemical engineering practice from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to Stanford Law School where he was President of the Stanford Law Review and graduated with a juris doctor with honors in 1987. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and studied at Oxford, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law (a graduate degree) with first class honours.

Career

He was a law clerk to Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then became a clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court from 1989 to 1990.

In the private sector, he was general counsel of GE Vendor Financial Services and later joined Cardinal Health in 2005 as chief legal officer.[5] A National Law Journal profile credits him with reorganizing the legal department of Cardinal and clearing a docket swamped by two dozen major lawsuits.[6]

He was sworn in as general counsel of Homeland Security in May 2009.[7]

He was hired as Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel of The 3M Company, on October 15, 2012. [8]

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8)

References

1. DHS Leadership
2. The United States Government Manual (November 2013), Executive Branch: Departments - Department of Homeland Security
3. John Sandweg - Homeland Sec., Immigration, Compliance
4. Nominations of Ivan K. Fong and Timothy W. Manning : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, of the One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session : nominations of Ivan K. Fong to be general counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Timothy W. Manning to be deputy administrator for national preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, April 30, 2009 (2010)
5. "Obama taps Cardinal lawyer for Homeland Security job - Columbus - Business First". Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.
6. "Profiles in Power".
7. "Ivan K. Fong to Be Nominated as Homeland Security General Counsel | Homeland Security". www.dhs.gov. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
8. "3M - redirecting". Archived from the original on 2017-09-04. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

External links

• Full bio 3M
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Archived Homeland Security Bio