Jennifer Naomi Gaspar

In the archive

Interactive: Where Pandemic-Oversight Lawyers Went Next

Identity and role

Staff Director (Democratic), U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, since February 2023. (Staff Director Democratic, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations PSI, Committee on Homeland Securi... (original: legistorm.com)) She was Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis from June 2020; the record of its July 1, 2021 hearing lists her as the Subcommittee's Deputy Staff Director. (U.S. House hearing record, Serial No. 117-34 July 1, 2021, staff masthead listing "Beth Mueller, Chief Counsel" (original: govinfo.gov))

Biography / career arc

Prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office; North Carolina Voter Protection Director for President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. Education: Georgetown University Law Center, the London School of Economics, and Johns Hopkins University. (POGO profile)
Counsel, House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
June 2020: joined the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis as Chief Investigative Counsel. (committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture))
February 2023: became Staff Director (Democratic) of the Senate HSGAC Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the Senate's principal investigative subcommittee. (Staff Director Democratic, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations PSI, Committee on Homeland Securi... (original: legistorm.com); PSI committee page)

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

As Chief Investigative Counsel from June 2020, Gaspar was among the most senior investigators on the Subcommittee. The Subcommittee's December 1, 2022 fintech-fraud staff report, "We Are Not the Fraud Police," was issued by its majority staff. (Report: House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, Dec. 1, 2022.) She held investigative-counsel responsibility; the report is not personally signed.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Gaspar left House staff to run the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as Staff Director. (Staff Director Democratic, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations PSI, Committee on Homeland Securi... (original: legistorm.com))

Additional public-record notes

Lobbying & industry ties

Her documented post-House career is in congressional oversight (Senate PSI). No federal lobbying registration is associated with her.

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents

James E. Clyburn — chaired the Select Subcommittee where she was chief investigative counsel.
Zachary Schram — fellow Senate fraud-oversight chief counsel.

Sources

LegiStorm, Jen Gaspar biography — "Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Feb. 2023-), Staff Director, Democratic" — Staff Director Democratic, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations PSI, Committee on Homeland Securi... (original: legistorm.com)
Project On Government Oversight, Jen Gaspar (background: NDCal/LA prosecutor; 2012 NC voter protection; Georgetown Law / LSE / Johns Hopkins) — https://www.pogo.org/about/people/jen-gaspar
Senate HSGAC Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations — https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/
Chairman Clyburn announces Select Subcommittee staff (committee release) — committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture)
Report: "We Are Not the Fraud Police", House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, Dec. 1, 2022.