Inspector General

Kathy A. Buller

Inspector General
Peace Corps

Ms. Kathy A. Buller was named by the Director to be the Inspector General of the Peace Corps on May 25, 2008. Ms. Buller has over 20 years of experience in the Inspector General community. She began her civil service career with the U.S. Agency for International Development as an attorney advisor in the Office of General Counsel in 1983. Ms. Buller later became a project officer with the Office of Administration of Justice and Democratic Development working to improve Latin American and Caribbean justice systems. In 1986, Ms. Buller transferred to the Office of Inspector General where she became the Deputy Legal Counsel and ultimately the Assistant Inspector General for Resource Management. In August 1998, Ms. Buller accepted the Senior Executive Service position as the Chief Counsel to the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration where she remained until becoming the Peace Corps Inspector General.

As a member of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, Ms. Buller is co-chair of the Inspections and Evaluations Committee and a member of the Legislation Committee. In 2009 she was appointed to the Government Accountability Office Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards. During her career in the Inspector General community she also served as past Chair of the Council of Counsels to the Inspectors General and received numerous awards including the 2004 Glenn/Roth Exemplary Service Award given jointly by the President's Council on Efficiency and Integrity and the Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency.

Ms. Buller attended Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1977 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1981. She continued her legal education and received an LLM in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University in 1985.

Last updated Jun 12 2013