Terrell McSweeny is an American attorney who served as a Commissioner of the

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from 2014 until 2018.

Personal life and education

McSweeny is a graduate of

Holton-Arms School Holton-Arms is an independent college-preparatory school for girls in grades 3–12, located in Bethesda, Maryland. As of the 2021–22 school year, there were 667 students and 94 faculty. Since 2007, Susanna Jones has been Head of School. The s ...

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and

Georgetown University Law Center The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...

. Her siblings include stage director

Ethan McSweeny Ethan McSweeny is an American theatre director. He served as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center from 2018 to 2021. Early life and education McSweeny is a native of Washington, D.C., the son of political journalists Dorothy and ...

Career

McSweeny formerly worked as an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP. McSweeny's government service also includes her work as Senator Joe Biden's Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director in the U.S. Senate, where she managed domestic and economic policy development and legislative initiatives, and as Counsel on the

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, where she worked on issues such as criminal justice, innovation, women's rights, domestic violence, judicial nominations, and immigration and civil rights. Prior to joining the Commission, McSweeny served as Chief Counsel for Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Relations for the

United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice that enforces U.S. antitrust law. It has exclusive jurisdiction over U.S. federal criminal antitrust prosecutions. It also has jurisdi ...

. She joined the Antitrust Division after serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President from January 2009 until February 2012, advising President

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 U ...

and Vice President Joe Biden on policy in a variety of areas, including health care, innovation, intellectual property, energy, education, women's rights, criminal justice and domestic violence. McSweeny was sworn in as a Commissioner of the FTC on April 28, 2014, to an initial term that expired on September 25, 2017. McSweeny left the position on April 28, 2018.

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