Sarah Geffroy is Assistant Vice President—Senior Legal Counsel in AT&T’s Washington, DC office. She counsels AT&T’s external affairs offices on a wide range of policy and regulatory matters, including cybersecurity, privacy, and national security issues. Ms. Geffroy also serves as a Senior Fellow with the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.
Prior to assuming her current role, Ms. Geffroy’s experience included serving in AT&T’s Global Public Policy office focusing on cybersecurity and national security policy issues. She also served as Chief Counsel to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) for then-Chairman Mike Rogers, and as Counselor to Board Member Elisebeth Collins on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. As the Chief Counsel on HPSCI, Ms. Geffroy led the Committee’s efforts to pass cyber threat information sharing legislation, developed and implemented the Committee’s legislative and parliamentary operations and managed the legal issues arising in the Committee’s regular oversight of the seventeen Intelligence Community elements. Ms. Geffroy also served as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs where she represented the Department in legislative and oversight matters before Congress on various national security, criminal and civil matters.
Ms. Geffroy began her career in private practice with a law firm in Washington, D.C. She holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law School, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and a BA in Business Administration from Michigan State University. She lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband and four children.
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