| Dan Driscoll | |
| Birth Name: | Daniel P. Driscoll |
| Party: | Republican |
| Education: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BS) Yale University (JD) |
| Office: | United States Secretary of the Army Presumptive nominee |
| Term Start: | TBD |
| Succeeding: | Christine Wormuth |
| Allegiance: |  United States |
| Serviceyears: | 2009–2011 |
| Rank: | First Lieutenant[1] |
| Mawards: | Army Commendation Medal Ranger tab Combat Action Badge |
| President: | Donald Trump (elect) |
Daniel P. Driscoll is an American Army veteran, politician, and businessman who is the presumptive nominee to serve as United States Secretary of the Army in the second Donald Trump administration.[2] A friend and former classmate of JD Vance, Driscoll was a Republican candidate for North Carolina's 11th congressional district in the 2020 election.[3]
Driscoll was raised in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and graduated from Watauga High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in three years and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[4]
Driscoll served in the United States Army for three and a half years as a Cavalry Scout Platoon Leader. He was deployed to Iraq in 2009.
During law school, Driscoll interned for the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Ninth Circuit chief judge Alex Kozinski, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Bradshaw & Hinson.[5]
Following law school, Driscoll worked at an investment bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, until his first child was born.[4] As of February 2020, he was employed at 100watt, an investment firm.[4]
On December 4, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Driscoll to Secretary of the Army.[6]