Fernando Campoamor serves as the Counsel to the Inspector General of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. In this role, he is the IG’s senior legal and policy adviser and provides legal support to the staff of the WMATA Office of Inspector General. Mr. Campoamor has over two decades of experience as a trial lawyer and prosecutor, having tried dozens of criminal and civil trials to verdict.

Mr. Campoamor started his legal career as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division. Following his initial government service, Mr. Campoamor spent five years in private practice as a litigator handling complex civil litigation, internal investigations, and international arbitrations. In 2004, Mr. Campoamor returned to government service when he became an Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”) for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted felony offenses in both Superior Court and District Court, including narcotics trafficking, kidnappings, homicides, as well as offenses implicating the national security of the United States. As an AUSA, Mr. Campoamor also served as the Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Felony Major Crimes Section, where he was responsible for supervising and training new and junior AUSAs.

Beginning in 2019, until he joined OIG, Mr. Campoamor served as Litigation Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he was responsible for litigating and trying complex cases in federal district courts involving violations of federal securities laws.

Mr. Campoamor graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, with a major in International Politics, and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law. Mr. Campoamor is fluent in Spanish, and he is also an active instrument-rated private pilot.

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