Christine A. Varney served as Chair of the Antitrust Practice of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP from 2011 until her retirement in December 2025.
Prior to Cravath she served as Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, heading the Antitrust Division and overseeing merger review, criminal and civil litigation and investigations, and coordination with competition regulators outside the United States. Before the DOJ she served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, and earlier as Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet in the Clinton administration.
She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1977, an M.P.A. from Syracuse University in 1982, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1986.