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Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan | Partner
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Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan brings extensive experience in both the private and public sectors to the Monument Policy Group, LLC, which she joined as a partner in July of 2008. Jessica has twice been named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the U.S. by Hispanic Business Magazine. She also has been honored by Women in Government Relations with its 2007 Congressional Staff Award and by the Hispanic Bar Association-D.C. as a 2007 Rising Legal Star.

Previously, Jessica served as the Staff Director and General Counsel for the House Committee on Homeland Security, where she directed, supervised and managed the legislative, policy and oversight activities of the Committee’s staff from 2003 to 2008. She was also the principal staff liaison for the Committee with the congressional leadership and the Administration. Her responsibilities included advising Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., and other Committee Members on policy and strategy relating to homeland security and global counterterrorism matters. While at the House Homeland Security Committee, Jessica played a lead role in the passage of numerous pieces of legislation, including H.R.1, the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act.

Before joining the Committee, Jessica served as Senior Counsel on the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she led a team of prosecutors who specialized in cybercrime from 1999 to 2003. She was one of the government’s leading experts on critical infrastructure protection, CFIUS, and electronic evidence gathering. She also served as vice-chair on the U.S. Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) Experts Group on international information security. Jessica also represented the United States on security and privacy issues at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) and the Organization of American States (“OAS”).Before her work at the Justice Department, Jessica was with Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where she practiced communications, intellectual property and energy law. Jessica also has served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney working on fraud and public corruption cases in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses on cybercrime, information security, and criminal law as an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University and at the American Military University.

Jessica is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a Past President and current member on the Advisory Board of the Hispanic Bar Association of D.C. She is an Advisory Board Member of the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security and Vice Chair of the Special Committee on Homeland Security for the ABA’s Science & Technology Section. Also, Jessica currently is serving on the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and on the Center for National Policy’s Military Transformation Series (MTS) Advisory Group

A native of Port Arthur, Texas, she received her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA with distinction in American Studies from Yale University. She holds a 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is an active markswoman, cyclist, and poet. She is married to Tom Flanigan.