Troy Cribb is Senior Counsel to Chairman Joe Lieberman on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Her portfolio includes the oversight of federal procurement policies as well as a variety of issues relating to the Department of Homeland Security, including its emergency communications functions, major acquisitions and management of the Department. Prior to joining the Committee she was Trade Counsel in the international trade practice of Steptoe & Johnson, and she previously has held positions of Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary in the International Trade Administration at the Department of Commerce, and as an aide to former Senator Fritz Hollings on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Ms. Cribb earned an undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and a law degree at Georgetown University Law Center.