Jamie Gorelick

Jamie Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer Hale, where she is co-chair of the Defense and National Security practice, chair of the Public Policy and Strategy practice, and a member of the Executive Committee.

Gorelick was deputy attorney general of the United States from 1994 to 1997. Prior to that post, Gorelick served as General Counsel of the Department of Defense.

From 1979 to 1980 she served as Assistant to the Secretary and Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy. Gorelick also co-chaired the Advisory Committee of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

In the private sector, from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1993, Gorelick worked as a litigator in Washington, D.C., representing major U.S. companies on a broad range of legal and business matters. She served as a member of the bi-partisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, and was president of the District of Columbia Bar from 1992 to 1993.

She currently serves on several boards, including United Technologies Corporation, Schlumberger, Limited, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Urban Institute. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.

Gorelick holds a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.