Jessica Herrera-Flanigan
Partner, Monument Policy Group
A former federal prosecutor and senior Congressional Democratic advisor, Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan, Partner, has extensive experience in national security, law enforcement, media, telecommunications, Internet, diversity, and privacy issues. She has authored several chapters of books and articles and is a frequent speaker on the issues affecting our nation's security, technology, commerce, sports, and entertainment markets. Jessica helps clients on all aspects of government affairs, from establishing an economic footprint to understanding policymaking in Congress and the Executive branch to navigating oversight investigations.
Prior to joining Monument in 2008, Jessica served as the Staff Director and General Counsel for the House Committee on Homeland Security, where she oversaw the legislative, policy and oversight activities of the Committee's staff. She was also the principal staff liaison for the Committee with congressional leadership and the Administration.
Jessica has also served as Senior Counsel at the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she focused on technology issues and led the Section's cybercrime investigation team. She was one of the government's leading experts on critical infrastructure protection, CFIUS, and electronic evidence gathering. She also served as vice-chair on the U.S. Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") Experts Group on international information security and represented the United States on security and privacy issues at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ("APEC") and the Organization of American States ("OAS"). Jessica also was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney working on fraud and public corruption cases in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C.
Prior to her government service, Jessica worked at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where she practiced communications/media, intellectual property, and energy law. She has taught as an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University and at the American Military University. She currently is a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute.
Jessica is on the Advisory Boards of the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council and the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security. She also serves as the Co-Chair of the ABA's Special Committee on Homeland Security and is a member of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and on the Center for National Policy's Future Force Advisory Group. Jessica is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In addition, Jessica is active in the Hispanic community, having served as President of the Hispanic Bar Association of D.C. and as Region V (DC, MD, VA, WV) President for the Hispanic National Bar Association. She has been named three times (2000, 2002, 2008) by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States.
She also has been honored by Women in Government Relations with its Congressional Staff Award and by the Women's High Tech Coalition with a Women in Cybersecurity Award.
A native of Port Arthur, Texas, she received her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA with distinction in American Studies from Yale University. She holds a 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is an active markswoman, cyclist, and poet. She is married to Thomas C. Flanigan.
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Biography last updated May 29, 2009