Cynthia Hogan

She worked for Biden for almost 20 years as a top staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Biden is a former chairman). After starting on the committee as counsel in 1991,she was soon promoted to staff director and then to chief counsel for the powerful powerful, which oversees judicial nominations, including often contentious Supreme Court nominations. Hogan hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in 1979 and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1984. After graduating from law school, Hogan clerked for Edward Cahn, a U.S. district court judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She then took a position as an associate at Williams & Connolly, a prominent Washington, D.C., law firm. In 1991, Hogan joined Sen. Biden’s staff as the constitutional law counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee that Biden chaired from 1987 to 1995. She was promoted to staff director and then became the committee’s chief counsel. As a Biden staffer, Hogan helped pass the landmark 1994 Violence Crime and the 1995 Control Act and the Violence Against Women Act. She also advised then-Judiciary Chairman Biden on the Supreme Court nominations of Clinton appointees Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer and George H.W. Bush appointee Clarence Thomas. Hogan was named chief counsel to Vice President Biden in November 2008. From 2009 to 2013, Cynthia served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Counsel to the Vice President of the United States of America. In 2014, Hogan joined the National Football League as Senior Vice President of Public Policy. In 2016, she joined Apple as Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Americas. She resigned from Apple in 2020. In April 2020, then candidate Joe Biden asked Hogan to serve on a committee he formed to assist in the selection of a Vice Presidential candidate. Hogan is married and has two children.