Charles T. Moran

Charles Thomas Moran (born September 27, 1980) is an American political operative who has served as associate administrator for external affairs at the National Nuclear Security Administration since 2025.

Moran graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor's degree in politics and from the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy with a master's degree in public policy. He began working for the California Republican Party in 1999 as a staffer. Moran was the media director for California's delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention. By April 2009, he had become a spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans. Moran became the California chapter's vice president by March 2010. He worked for former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr.'s 2012 presidential campaign, the actor Antonio Sabàto Jr.'s 2018 California's 26th congressional district campaign, and the businessman John H. Cox's 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

In September 2019, Moran became the managing director of the Log Cabin Republicans after Jerri Ann Henry's resignation, following the organization's endorsement of Donald Trump for president in the 2020 election. He aligned the organization with Trumpism. Moran resigned in January 2025 to seek a job in the second Trump administration. By August, he had become the associate administrator for external affairs at the National Nuclear Security Administration.