Joseph Burson

Joseph Burson currently serves as Counsel in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since October 2022. Prior to this role, Joseph Burson was a Judicial Law Clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from August 2021 to September 2022. Joseph Burson also worked as an Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP from January 2021 to August 2021, and held law clerk positions at both the Illinois Attorney General's Office and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in 2019. Joseph Burson interned at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office and served as a Paralegal Intern in Global Investigations at GE from August 2016 to August 2017. Joseph Burson earned a Doctor of Law (JD) from Yale Law School in 2020 and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/International Relations from Carleton College in 2016.