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Jane Sherburne is General Counsel of Citi’s Global Consumer Group (GCG). As the chief legal officer for the GCG, Ms. Sherburne oversees all GCG legal matters. She also chairs the GCG Business Practices Committee. She is a member of the Citi Management Committee and the GCG Planning Group. She maintains offices in New York and Washington.
Previously, Ms. Sherburne served as Senior Deputy General Counsel of Citi, managing the company’s response to legal disputes or controversies at the group level, including the management of congressional and regulatory investigations. In this role Ms. Sherburne also supervised bank regulatory matters, significant litigation, proprietary capital markets activity, and global anti-money laundering legal matters.
Prior to joining Citi in July 2001, Ms. Sherburne was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she had a litigation practice representing clients in matters requiring crisis management, including media relations and matters involving Congressional investigations, internal government and corporate investigations, as well as complex civil litigation. She was co-lead counsel for the University of Michigan in the Gratz v. Bollinger affirmative action case from its inception in 1997 through 2000.
Ms. Sherburne interrupted her practice at WCP from 1994-1997 to serve as Special Counsel to the President. In that capacity she assembled and managed a team of lawyers, including congressional and public relations specialists, to conduct internal inquiries, respond to the ongoing activities of the Independent Counsel, and develop and implement congressional and public relations strategies in response to Clinton White House ethics investigations.
Ms. Sherburne is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (B.A. 1974, M.S.W. 1976) and the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1983), where she was Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Before entering law school, Ms. Sherburne served as Chief of Staff to the Commissioner of Social Security in the Carter Administration. Prior to that, she was a Legislative Assistant to Congressman Donald Fraser (D-MN).
Ms. Sherburne is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Member of the Boards of Trustees of the National Women’s Law Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the New York City Bar Justice Center.
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