5 Fast Facts You Need to Know About Ashley Callen
Ashley Callen: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Ashley Hurt Callen is a Republican lawyer and chief counsel of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee for the GOP majority in the House Judiciary
Committee.ย Callen is interrogating witnesses Steve Castor and Daniel Goldman in the impeachment investigation meeting prior to the Judiciary Committee.ย Castor is who is a fellow Republican and Goldman who is who is a Democrat are attorneys for the House Intelligence Committee
Callen 42, who is a lawyer is at her current position since November of this year according the information on her Linkedin profile.ย She previously served as an advisor to senior level and counsel to GOP lawmakers in the House Judiciary Committee from February 2019 to November 2019.ย She also serves as the general counsel as well as staff director for those Republican Members in the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in a position she has held since January 2016.
Hereโs what you need to know about Ashley Callen:
1. Ashley Callen Has Been a Republican Lawyer in the House Since 2007

Ashley Callen at the House Judiciary Committee hearing.
From January 2015 to December 2015, Callen was the deputy chief counsel for oversight for the House Committee on Agriculture, and from August 2013 to January 2015 she was the deputy chief counsel for investigations for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
She was also a senior counsel and counsel for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2007 to 2013.
Callen is paid about $160,931 per year from her various roles as an adviser, counsel, staff director and telecommunications administrator, to Republican members of the House,ย according to Legistorm.
2. Callen Previously Worked as a Legislative Director, a Legislative Assitant to Senator Strom Thurmond & a Law Clerk for the U.S. Air Force General Counsel

Ashley Hurt Callen looks at a graphic showing Rep. Adam Schiff as missing on a milk carton.
Callen was a legislative director for a House Republican congressman from 2005 to 2007, and a legislative assistant for the U.S. Senate from 1999 to 2003. Callen was a law clerk for the U.S. Air Force General Counsel from 2003 to 2005.
Callen worked for the late Republican South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond in his Washington office from 1999 to 2003. She was then the legislative director and general counsel for Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, of Texas, from 2005 to 2007.
3. Callen, Who Graduated From the University of South Carolina & George Mason Law, Was a Bridesmaid in Fox News Host Ainsley Earhardtโs Wedding

Ashley Callen sits next to Rep. Doug Collins.
Ashley H. Callen earned her bachelorโs degree in English from the University of South Carolina in 1999, with a minor in French. Callen graduated from the George Mason University School of Law in 2004. Callen studied at George Mason while she was working in Congress as a legislative aide.
Callen wrote about her time working for Senator Strom Thurmond in the bookย โThe Centennial Senator,โย which collected stories about Thrumond from those who knew him. She said, โWhen I was a page for the Senator he gave me a bar of soap. He always brought back soaps and shampoos from his travels. I remember thinking that was so thoughtful of him to remember me like that. ัะฝะดะตะบั I mean, I was just a page. He didnโt have to do that.โ

GettyAshley Callen speaks with Rep. Doug Collins.
Callen was a bridesmaid in the 2005 wedding of โFox & Friendsโ hostย Ainsley Earhardtย and her first husband, Kevin McKinney,ย according to GoUpstate.com.ย Callen and Earhardt are both from South Carolina. Callen also wrote aย review of Earhardtโs book, โThe Light Within Me: An Inspirational Memoir.โ She wrote, โAinsleyโs heartfelt and uplifting memoir is a must read for all evangelicals.โ
4. Callen Was Born Ashley Hurt in South Carolina & Went to Prep School in Connecticut

Ashley Callen looks on as Rep. Doug Collins speaks.
Callen, whose maiden name is Ashley Hurt, was born and raised in South Carolina. She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school in Connecticut, for high school, according to her Linkedin profile.
She graduated from Choate in 1995. In 2018, she gave athlethes from her former high school a tour of her workplace.
Michael Velez, Choateโs lacrosse coach,ย told The Choate News, โOff the field, the highlight was a tour of the Capitol with Ashley Callen โ95, which gave us the opportunity to hear how Ashleyโs Choate experience helped her enter a career in politics. During the visit, the team had the chance to go out on the floor of the House of Representatives and the Speakerโs Balcony.โ
5. Callen Is Married & Lives With Her Husband & Children in Virginia

Ashley Hurt Callen.
Ashley Callen is married to Greg Callen. They have a daughter and two sons together, according to Callenโs social media pages, and they live together in Virginia.ย On Instagram,ย Callen writes in her profile, โLiving In the Arl ????โโ๏ธ???โ๏ธbut wish I was living @ the ???โ
According to his Linkedin profile, Greg Callen, 43, is a partner at Daston Corporation, an IT service management company based in Leesburg, Virginia. He was previously a sales executive at McAfee, Foundstone and Oracle Corporation. He graduated from The Citadel in 1998 with a business degree