Karen Morris

Karen Morris is the General Counsel, providing legal advice and counsel for the Director and the agency on all legal and regulatory issues. This includes enforcement of Title IV of ERISA, including its multiemployer and single employer plan provisions, through litigation, negotiation, drafting regulations and guidance, deciding administrative appeals and administration of the Freedom of Information Act. She also advises the agency on corporate governance, ethics, procurement, labor relations, and privacy. Most recently, Ms. Morris served as PBGC’s Chief of Negotiations and Restructuring. She also previously served as Deputy Chief Counsel in PBGC's Office of the Chief Counsel, where she led several major lawsuits arising from M&A transactions and directed PBGC's legal work in major bankruptcy cases.

Ms. Morris received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, and her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Maryland.