Nicole Angarella currently serves as the General Counsel to the USAID Inspector General. In this position, Ms. Angarella leads a team of attorneys and specialists, providing independent legal counsel and comprehensive legal advice, research, and guidance to the Inspector General, Deputy Inspector General, and OIG’s Offices of Audit, Investigations, and Management. As General Counsel, she is an active member of the Council of Counsels to the Inspectors General. Prior to her appointment as general counsel, Ms. Angarella served as a senior legal counsel at USAID OIG and Department of Transportation OIG.
Before joining the Federal Government, Ms. Angarella worked as an associate attorney in the General Litigation & White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group at a large law firm in Washington, DC, representing corporate and individual clients in Federal investigations and complex criminal and civil matters. She also worked as an associate attorney specializing in employment and labor relations law.
Ms. Angarella has a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Mary Washington and a law degree from the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America. Ms. Angarella is a member of both the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.