Linda currently serves as Interim CEO for the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation. She also represents Hampton University in Washington and consults on government relations and institutional development matters for the university. As an independent consultant, Linda provides legal, fundraising, grant writing, outreach, public relations and government relations assistance to nonprofit and other organizations. Her clients have included Kent Place School, Montclair High School, Congressional Black Caucus Spouses, Planned Parenthood of Washington, D.C., SodexhoUSA and the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials. Linda also worked as publicist for Walking with the Wind by John Lewis (with Michael D'Orso); and she organized anniversary celebrations of significant events in the history of civil rights. Linda was Special Advisor to the Chairman of President Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She previously served as Chief of the Legislative Branch at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Executive Director of the D.C. Judicial Nominations Commission, and Staff Director for the newly-created Joint Federal Relations Committee for the New Jersey State Legislature Linda did three stints as Chief of Staff and Counsel to Congressman John Lewis, who was a senior Member of Congress serving in the House Leadership. She also has served as his staff on the Ways and Means Committee. Among the initiatives in her portfolio were what is now known as Sam Nunn Federal Building in Atlanta and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Linda was a member of the founding faculty of the School of Law at Georgia State University. She taught Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Ethics, Administrative Law and Legal Writing. Her work with the law school helped lay the foundation for it being not only one of the best law schools in terms of bar passage rates and student placements, but one of the most diverse law schools in the nation. She began her career in the Florida Attorney General’s Antitrust Division, from which she was recruited to the Federal Trade Commission’s Honors Program. A member of the bar in the District of Columbia, Florida and Georgia, Linda earned a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, a Juris Doctorate from Howard University and a Master of Laws (Taxation) from Emory University. She also is a graduate of both the Senior Managers in Government Program and the Community Builders Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Among her many civic involvements are her service on the boards of the John and Lilian Miles Lewis Foundation, Inc. (President), the D.C. Humanities Council, the City of Atlanta Board of Ethics, the Zoning Commission (Chair) for the Town of Highland Beach (MD), the Fulton County (GA) Board of Ethics, the GABWA Scholarship Foundation (founding President), the New Jersey Opera and the South Orange Performing Arts Center. She is a member of the Links, Incorporated, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and an alumna of Leadership Atlanta, Leadership Georgia and Leadership Greater Washington. Linda and her husband, Mark, are the proud parents of Rebecca and Mark Jr., a grandson, Cooper, and a granddaughter, who will have just been born by the time this is read and whose name is now unknown.

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