Robert Phillip Charrow (born October 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and government official.
Currently a shareholder at the law firm of
Greenberg Traurig
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As of 2025, it is the eighth-largest law firm in the United States. The firm has 49 locati ...
, he was nominated by President
Donald Trump
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to be the General Counsel of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services
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. He was confirmed on December 21, 2017. He previously worked for the law firm of
Crowell & Moring. In the
Ronald Reagan
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administration, Charrow served as Deputy and then Principal Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In those roles, he supervised the chief counsel for the
Health Care Financing Administration,
Office of Inspector General, the
Food and Drug Administration
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, and the
United States Public Health Service
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.
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External links
Biographyat U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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Living people
21st-century American jurists
Stanford Law School alumni
Harvey Mudd College alumni
American male non-fiction writers
American legal writers
Reagan administration personnel
First Trump administration personnel
United States Department of Health and Human Services officials
1944 births