Theresa
McCarthy
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Headquarters Operations
Theresa McCarthy is the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Headquarters Operations in the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) and serves as a management official in planning, overseeing, and implementing key Bureau programs. Headquarters Operations includes TTB’s Advertising, Labeling and Formulation Division (ALFD), Regulations and Rulings Division (RRD), International Trade Division (ITD), Scientific Services Division (SSD), and Knowledge Management Staff (KMS).
Prior to her recent appointment, Ms. McCarthy managed RRD and was responsible for the oversight of the regulatory process including the issuance of notices of proposed rulemaking, Treasury decisions, rulings and procedures. Highlights of her seven-year tenure with RRD include initiating and leading two large-scale transformational efforts. She initiated TTB's regulations modernization effort in 2003 which over the past six years has involved updating three voluminous parts of our regulations improving regulatory guidance to our largest industry segments. In 2008 she also spearheaded the Bureau-wide effort to formalize TTB’s public guidance issuance process and to conduct reviews of and update as necessary rulings, procedures and industry circulars currently in the public domain, some of which date back to the 1960s.
Prior to joining TTB, Ms. McCarthy held numerous positions over a ten-year span at the Department of the Treasury, including a position as senior advisor for strategy and finance in the Department's Office of the Undersecretary for Enforcement.
Before joining Treasury, Ms. McCarthy conducted program evaluations, audits, investigations, and inspections in the Department of the Navy's Office of Inspectors General and Command Evaluation and Review Office. Earlier work experiences include internships in both houses of the U.S. Congress and in local law enforcement.
Ms. McCarthy holds a Masters in Public Financial Management from the American University and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Maine.
10/2010
