Micki Chen has served as lead attorney for Verizon Long Distance since July 2000, and previously counseled Verizon's business units that sell to small businesses and the Federal government. From 1993 to 1996, she was Senior Assistant General Counsel and Special Counsel to the General Counsel for the U.S. General Services Administration. During her tenure with the government she earned the Vice President's "Hammer Award" and the "Commendable Service Award". Early in her legal career Micki worked as a litigation associate for Morrison and Foerster and as a Federal district court clerk to Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington, D.C. Prior to entering Harvard Law School she spent one year working at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Micki is a board member for the Medicare Rights Center. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University, and a J.D. in 1990 cum laude from Harvard Law School where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She and her family make their home in Washington, DC. Micki is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.