Biography
Trisha Anderson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence & Security (DAS I&S) in the Department of Commerce. In that role, she oversees the Office of Intelligence & Security, which includes responsibilities for implementing the Department’s information and communications technology and services (ICTS) authorities under Executive Orders 13873 and 14034 as well as the authorities to impose customer verification requirements on cloud service providers under Executive Order 13984.
Prior to joining the Department, Ms. Anderson was a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the areas of cybersecurity, trade controls, and national security litigation. Before becoming a partner at Covington, she spent over 11 years in senior positions at the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At the FBI she served as Principal Deputy General Counsel, overseeing all legal support to the FBI’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber investigations.
Ms. Anderson clerked for Justice Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Jeff Sutton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and earned her law degree from Harvard Law School.