Marcus Childress, a lawyer for the Jan. 6 Committee, has joined Jenner & Block in Washington this week as a special counsel.
Childress is an investigations practitioner in Jenner’s government controversies and public policy litigation practice, and its firm’s investigations, compliance, and defense practice, according to Jenner & Block.
Childress served as investigative counsel for the House panel, formally called the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
He was one of the first lawyers to join the committee. Through more than 60 witness interviews and depositions, he worked to determine why rioters came to Washington that day and marched on the Capitol, and how they managed to breach the building.
Childress said he took a month off after leaving the committee in October after a 13-month process of probing stories behind the insurrection.
“It was heavy,” Childress in an interview. “But we just viewed it as our civic duty” to try to prevent another Jan. 6 attack from occurring.
Childress, a former JAG lawyer with the U.S. Air Force for almost five years through 2019, is the fifth former government official to join the firm’s Washington office in the last three months.
His move reunites him with Michelle Kallen, who represented the Jan. 6 committee in court matters involving Steve Bannon and John Eastman. Kallen joined Jenner’s DC office as a partner in September.
He’s also joining Emily Loeb, who returned to Jenner in September after leaving to join the Justice Department to become associate deputy attorney general.
“His experience on all sides of high-profile investigations makes him a strong addition to our team,” said firm Chair Tom Perrelli in a Jenner statement.
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