Lisa Graves

Lisa Graves is CMD's Executive Director. She has served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government and other posts. She has also worked as a leading strategist on civil liberties advocacy in the area of national security and as an adjunct law professor at one of the top law schools in the country. Her former leadership positions include: Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy/Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Justice (handling an array of civil and criminal policy issues as well as leading the working group on judicial nominations -- worked under both Attorneys General Janet Reno and John Ashcroft) Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for the Chairman/Ranking Member Senior Legislative Strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union (on national security and surveillance policies) Deputy Director of the Center for National Security Studies Deputy Chief of the Article III Judges Division of the U.S. Courts (including oversight of the Financial Disclosure Office for judicial ethics) She was also the managing editor for the Clinton Administration's National Integrated Firearms Violence Reduction Strategy.