Corin R. Stone

Scholar-in-Residence

Corin R. Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Washington College of Law.  She is conducting research, developing programming, and contributing to TLS courses. She is on leave from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where until August, 2020, she served as the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy & Engagement. In 2005, Ms. Stone helped stand-up the ODNI and has served in a number of key leadership roles, including as the first Principal Deputy General Counsel from 2005-2010.  Ms. Stone also served on joint duty assignment as the Executive Director for the National Security Agency (NSA) from 2014-2017, working directly with NSA’s Director and Deputy Director. Ms. Stone began her career in federal service as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Keeton, District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She then joined the U.S. Department of State, where she was an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser and served for eight months in Iraq, first as an Associate General Counsel in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and then as the first Legal Adviser to Ambassador Negroponte and the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.  Prior to her federal service, Ms. Stone practiced commercial litigation at Pepper Hamilton, LLP, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also previously worked for the Hague Conference on Private International Law. She is a Pitt Law (JD '98) and Johns Hopkins University ('94) alumna.