Thomas Monheim


Thomas Monheim is a career intelligence officer who is the acting inspector general of the United States intelligence community in the Trump administration. He previously served as general counsel of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Education

Monheim is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California School of Law, and National War College.

Military service

Monheim has served as a prosecutor, defense counsel, military judge, and deputy general counsel of the White House Military Office.
He was mobilized for nine months in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and again for nine months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Monheim retired as a colonel from the air Air Force Reserves.

U.S. intelligence community acting inspector general

Monheim became acting inspector of the intelligence community on April 3, 2020, after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor, Michael Atkinson.