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Cassie Fields

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The profile

Senior Investigative Counsel on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, by way of Williams & Connolly and House Oversight, now General Counsel to the House Democratic Leader.

Identity & role

Cassandra Beth Fields goes by Cassie. Washington, D.C. She served as Senior Investigative Counsel on the majority staff of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (117th Congress), the Clyburn-led panel behind the December 1, 2022 staff report "We Are Not the Fraud Police": How Fintechs Facilitated Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program. She is now General Counsel to the Office of the House Democratic Leader (Hakeem Jeffries).

Career arc

Fields holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Per Chairman Clyburn's June 10, 2020 staff announcement, she began her career on the professional staff of Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones, Jr., in Springfield. She then practiced as a Senior Associate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, where her work included litigation, internal investigations, and professional ethics. Litigation records place "Cassandra B. Fields" of Williams & Connolly as counsel of record on federal cases circa 2010–2013. Before the Subcommittee she served as Counsel on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform under Chairman Elijah E. Cummings and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, and joined the Select Subcommittee as Senior Investigative Counsel when its staff was announced in June 2020.

Pandemic relief oversight role

Fields was named Senior Investigative Counsel on the Subcommittee at its 2020 founding. The December 2022 fintech report carries no individual staff byline, and we found no record of her part in it or of when she left the Subcommittee.

Lobbying & industry ties

We found no Senate LDA or House lobbying registration under "Cassandra Fields" or "Cassie Fields." Her sole private-sector employer was the law firm Williams & Connolly.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Fields stayed in public service. Public sources disagree on when the General Counsel role began (one LegiStorm record indicates July 2025; an earlier record and search summaries indicate February 2023). The role is current.

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