Matthew Berry most recent served as Deputy General Counsel. Before coming to the Commission, he served as Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he earned the Department’s John Marshall Award for providing legal advice related to counter-terrorism policy. Prior to joining the Office of Legal Policy, Mr. Berry served as an attorney-adviser in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Mr. Berry was previously a visiting professor at William and Mary School of Law, where he taught courses on the First Amendment and election law, and he has served as a law clerk for United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has also been a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice. Mr. Berry graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and received his J.D. from Yale Law School.