CURRENT POSITION: The NSA General Counsel is a career civil service position, responsible for managing the NSA Office of General Counsel. 
 
EDUCATION: Ms. Doss graduated magna cum laude from Yale, earned her J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and received an M.F.A. degree from Goucher College.
 
PRIOR POSITIONS: Ms. Doss first came to the National Security Agency in 2003, and held a variety of roles. Among them, she served as a senior policy officer for NSA in interagency information sharing efforts in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, managed intelligence operations programs, led technology innovation efforts, was posted overseas as a foreign liaison officer, and led one of NSA’s legal teams as Associate General Counsel for Intelligence Law.
 
Prior to being named NSA General Counsel, Ms. Doss held a number of positions in the public and private sector.  These included chairing the Cybersecurity and Privacy practice group of a major U.S. law firm where she was a partner in private practice; serving as part of a bipartisan team of counsel and staff in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and leading academic and research programs as the Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law School. 
 
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: Ms. Doss holds a number of technical and policy certifications and has held numerous teaching appointments over the years, serving as adjunct faculty at the University of Baltimore Law School and the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and as a senior lecturer at Georgetown Law School, where she has taught privacy law, internet law, technology law, and other courses.