She is the former Deputy Ethics Official (DEO) for the Office of General Counsel (OGC) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Washington, D.C. office. She joined EPA in January 2002, and was responsible for providing professional responsibility and ethics guidance to 140 EPA attorneys in OGC. In addition, she had nationwide responsibility for managing the Agency’s award winning ethics program and providing ethics counsel and advice to 17,000 EPA employees.