MARY MCCORD

Since 2017, McCord has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) at Georgetown University Law Center, where she also holds the position of Visiting Professor of Law. At ICAP, she leads a team engaged in constitutional impact litigation across federal and state courts, focusing on First Amendment rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and combating the rise of private paramilitary groups, a very poignant topic at this time in our beleaguered country.

McCord graduated from Georgetown University Law School and began her legal career clerking for Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. During her nearly two decades at the U.S. Attorney's Office, she served as Deputy Chief in the Appellate Division for more than five years, where she supervised and argued hundreds of cases in the U.S. and District of Columbia Courts of Appeals. She later became Criminal Division Chief, overseeing all criminal prosecutions in federal district court.

Following the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, McCord was appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force 1-6 Capitol Security Review. She serves as a statutorily designated amicus curiae for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and has been appointed to serve on several review teams, including the Columbus Police After Action Review Team evaluating police response to the 2020 summer protests.

McCord has become a prominent voice in legal media, focusing on the Department of Justice and threats to American democracy.  She has contributed articles to major publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and appears regularly as a legal analyst on NPR, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, and ABC.