Ex-Big Law Partner Nabs NSA Legal Post After Russia Probe Role

The US National Security Agency has a new general counsel in April Falcon Doss, a past lawyer at the NSA and former chair of the cybersecurity and privacy practice at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr.

She spent over a dozen years at the NSA before leaving in 2016 to join Saul Ewing. Doss was also special counsel to the US Senate Intelligence Committee when it was investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Doss started her new job May 23, an NSA spokesperson said. She took over from acting general counsel Ariane Cerlenko, who held the ...