Helgi Walker is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office. She is Co-Chair of the firm’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group and a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Group. Ms. Walker worked in the White House Counsel’s Office as Associate Counsel to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. In this capacity, she was responsible for general regulatory and administrative law matters and judicial selection. Ms. Walker was part of the original litigation team on behalf of then-Governor Bush in the battle over the 2000 presidential election. From 2006 to 2010, she served on the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission by appointment of President Bush. Ms. Walker clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from 1995 to 1996 and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1994 to 1995. After her clerkships, she worked as an associate at Gibson Dunn. She then reentered government service, serving at the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) as Legal Advisor and later Senior Legal Advisor/Chief of Staff to Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Before rejoining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Walker co-chaired the appellate practice and communications appellate practice at Wiley Rein LLP. Ms. Walker graduated in 1994 from the University of Virginia, School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and Raven Society and served as Executive Editor of the Virginia Law Review. She also received the Robert E. Goldsten Award and John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics.