Will Scharf

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William Owen Scharf (born March 29, 1986) is an American attorney and political operative who has served as the White House counsel since 2026. Scharf served as the White House staff secretary from 2025 to 2026. Scharf graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 2008 and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2011. After graduating from Harvard, he clerked for Judge Raymond Gruender of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Scharf later worked for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. In 2015, he was hired by Catherine Hanaway's campaign in the 2016 Missouri gubernatorial election to serve as Hanaway's policy director. After Hanaway lost the Republican primary to Eric Greitens, Scharf joined Greiten's campaign in a similar role. He served as Greitens's policy director until Greitens's resignation in June 2018. Scharf was involved in several Supreme Court confirmations, including those for Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. In June 2020, Scharf joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri as a prosecutor in its violent crimes unit. In January 2023, Scharf announced that he would run in the 2024 Missouri attorney general election as a Republican, seeking to challenge the incumbent Andrew Bailey. In his campaign, Scharf sought to highlight his proximity to former President Donald Trump, for whom he had concurrently served as his personal lawyer, and claimed that Bailey had perpetrated corruption in the attorney general's office. Bailey defeated Scharf in the Republican primary in August 2024. In November 2024, Trump named Scharf as his White House staff secretary. In July 2025, Trump appointed him to serve as the chair of the National Capital Planning Commission. In August 2026, Trump announced that Scharf would succeed David Warrington as the White House counsel.