Standing Committee
Chair: Stephen W. Preston, Partner and Chair, Defense, National Security and Government Contracts practices, WilmerHale. Former: General Counsel, Department of Defense; General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency; General Counsel, Department of the Navy.
Angeline Chen, Cleared Government Contractor, Progress Federal Solutions. Former: Of Counsel, DLA Piper, Vice President and General Counsel, Siemens, and former Deputy Associate General Counsel at the National Security Agency.
Gary Corn, Program Director & Adjunct Professor, Technology, Law, & Security Program, American University Washington College of Law. Retired Colonel, U.S. Army; former: Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Cyber Command; Deputy Legal Counsel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Operational Law Branch Chief, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army.
Raj De, Partner and Head of Cybersecurity & Data Privacy and National Security practices, Mayer Brown. Former: General Counsel, NSA; Staff Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President, Executive Office of the President; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Counsel, 9/11 Commission.
Mary DeRosa, Professor from Practice and Co-Director, Global Law Scholars Program, Georgetown University Law Center. Former: Alternate Representative of the United States to the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly; Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel to the President, Executive Office of the President; Legal Adviser, National Security Council; Chief Counsel for National Security, Senate Judiciary Committee; Special Counsel to the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense.
Laura K. Donohue, Anne Fleming Research Professor and Director, Center on National Security and the Law and Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown Law; Senior Scholar, Center for the Constitution, Georgetown Law.
Glenn Gerstell, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Former: General Counsel, National Security Agency; General Counsel, Central Security Service; Partner, Milbank, LLP.
John T. Martinez, Vice President and General Counsel, GE Aviation. Former VP and GC of Raytheon Intelligence and Space and former Deputy General Counsel for the Director of National Intelligence and Senior Associate General Counsel at the CIA.
Mary McCord, Visiting Professor of Law and Executive Director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown Law. Former Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Deputy Chief of the Appellate Division, Chief of the Criminal Division, District of Columbia.
Elisa Poteat, Attorney, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia.
Allison Stevens, Acting General Counsel, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Former Deputy General Counsel and Associate General Counsel for Intelligence Oversight, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Chief Legal Officer, Intelligence Systems Support Office, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence; and attorney, National Security and Military Affairs Division, U.S. Air Force Office of General Counsel.
SPECIAL ADVISORS TO THE COMMITTEE:
Harry W. Baumgarten, Assistant Attorney General, State of Delaware. Former Vice President and General Counsel, Grundy Commons.
Thomas P. Bossert, President at Trinity Cyber, Inc., National Security Analyst at ABC News and, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the U.S. Atlantic Council. Former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor for President George W. Bush.
Carter H. Burwell, Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Adjunct professor and Fellow at the National Security Institute, George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School. Former staff lawyer, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Alex Joel, Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law, American University. Former Chief, Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; attorney, Office of General Counsel, CIA.
Robert S. Litt, Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster. Former General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York.
James E. McPherson, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.). Former: Under Secretary, Department of the Army; General Counsel, Department of the Army; Acting Secretary, Department of the Army; Executive Director, National Association of Attorneys General; General Counsel, Counterintelligence Field Activity; Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy.
Tracy L Reynolds, Judge Advocate, United States Navy.
Laura West, Chair, National Security Department at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School, Charlottesville, Virginia. Former Deputy Chief, United States Cyber Command; Assistant Executive Officer & Chief Commissioner (Army Court of Criminal Appeals), U.S. Army Legal Services Agency.