May is general counsel and chief financial officer for OpenConcept Systems, Inc., a software development company. Previously, May served as general counsel and chief financial officer for Total Music LLC, a digital entertainment service. She also served for nearly three years as executive director of the Epilepsy Therapy Project, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance new treatments for epilepsy by funding cutting-edge epilepsy research. May was also vice president and associate general counsel at America Online Inc. for almost eight years. Her areas of expertise included intellectual property, technology licensing, telecommunications, and employment law. Her responsibilities included serving as general counsel to the Netscape Communications and AOL Technologies divisions. May has also been an associate at Soble & Associates in Washington, D.C., Foulston & Siefkin in Wichita, Kansas, and Ware & Freidenrich in Palo Alto, California. May has written numerous articles relating to intellectual property and has frequently spoken on intellectual property and technology licensing issues. She has bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and political science from Stanford University and her law degree from the University of Michigan. May is on the board of the Epilepsy Foundation and serves as secretary. She is also a member of the board of directors for the YMCA in Fairfax County, and for INCspire. She is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Stanford Law School and was a member of the Stanford University Special Gifts Committee. At Sidwell Friends, she served on the National Leadership Gift Board. May previously served on the advisory boards of George Washington University’s Virginia Campus and the American Corporate Counsel Association, and on the boards of the Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center, Children’s Law Center, and Children’s Chorus of Washington. She was a member of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program Executive Committee and a fellow of the program. May is married to Jim Lintott and is the proud mother of Jade Lintott ’17 and Marcus Lintott ’20.