Kristen Donoghue

Kristen Donoghue is senior advisor to Richard Cordray, Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Student Aid division of the Department of Education. She was recently a Managing Vice President at Capital One where she led Compliance for the Retail Bank, Enterprise Services, and Privacy across all of Capital One's businesses and operations. Kristen joined Capital One in 2019 after more than eight years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). While at the CFPB, Kristen served as part of the implementation team that established and built the Office of Enforcement. She thereafter held a number of different roles in the office, including serving as the Bureau’s Enforcement Director where she led a team of more than 140 lawyers and staff charged with enforcing federal consumer financial law.

Before joining the Bureau, Kristen was a litigator at Hogan Lovells, a Practitioner-in-Residence at American University’s Washington College of Law, and a judicial clerk for Judge Fred Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Kristen holds a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.