Keenan Kmiec

Lawyer, age 45
Exited govt: 2/05/25 (inferred)
One of the DOGE team of lawyers, there aren’t many public details about Keenan Kmiec’s specific contributions, apart from testimony from Noah Peters that he discussed the idea of firing probationary employees before the administration began. Like a small number of the DOGE crew, he comes from a cryptocurrency company and would possibly be involved with any work or policy by DOGE related to that sector.

Positions

Appointed:
1/24/25-2/05/25
Offboarding:
Left govt 2/05/25 (inferred)
Source: The Authors Guild/American Council of Learned Societies v. National Endowment for the Humanities, doc 122-2 Court Document, 2/17/26
Source: The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks Pro Publica, 2/07/25

Events

c.1/16/25
Action:
According to his later sworn testimony, Noah Peters meets with Keenan Kmiec to outline his plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees from being able to do their work and counter or monitor DOGE’s activities at their agencies.
Question: Fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition
Person: Keenan Kmiec, Noah Peters
Source: AFL-CIO v. OPM, doc 188-1 Court Document, 4/08/25
Agency: OPM
DOGE Project: Impunity, Anti-Personnel
1/24/25
2/05/25
Offboarding:
Keenan Kmiec leaves role at DOGE (exits govt. service)
3/26/25
Identification:
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.