Sandra Hodgkinson is an American lawyer and officer in the

United States Navy Reserve The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005, is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy. Members of the Navy Reserve, called Reservists, are categorized as being in either the Se ...

. She currently serves as senior vice president for strategic planning and chief of staff at DRS Technologies and Leonardo North America, headquartered in

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...

Career

Prior to joining DRS in 2012, Hodgkinson served as a career civil servant up through the rank of Senior Executive Service (SES) at the United States Department of Defense, United States Department of State, and the White House during both the

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

and

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...

administrations. Her assignments included Special Assistant (Chief of Staff) to Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD), Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at National Defense University (NDU), Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Director for International Justice at the National Security Council (NSC), and Senior Advisor at the

Coalition Provisional Authority ) , capital = Baghdad , largest_city = capital , common_languages = ArabicKurdish English (''de facto'') , government_type = Transitional government , legislature = Iraqi Governing Council , title_leader = Administrator , leader1 = Jay ...

(CPA) in Baghdad, Iraq. Prior to civil service, Hodgkinson spent six years as a U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps officer serving as an appellate clerk, Prosecutor/International Criminal Jurisdiction Officer (Naples, Italy), and as a Country Program Director, training foreign military and civilians in over 30 countries. She is a Captain in the Navy JAG Corps reserves.

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