Georgetown Names General Counsel
Stephanie Tsacoumis will serve as the university’s general counsel and vice president starting Nov. 2, the university announced on Tuesday.
Tsacoumis will lead the university’s legal team and provide legal advice on certain matters.
Tsacoumis said she plans immediately to reach out to and learn from the students, faculty and administration.
“I will say that a major attraction of the job was and is President DeGioia’s extraordinary leadership and the exceptional team that he has put together,” Tsacoumis said in an e-mail. “[It’s] definitely an ‘A-team.’”
Tsacoumis, an adjunct law professor at Georgetown Law Center, formerly served as a corporate partner at the D.C. offices of Morrison & Foerster, LLP and McKenna, Conner & Cuneo. In 1996, she began working at the D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, spending six years there as co-partner-in-charge.
“She has represented a broad array of clients in the nonprofit and corporate sectors on regulatory and transactional matters and brings experience as a counselor to senior management and boards of directors on issues of strategy, governance and compliance,” University President John J. DeGioia said in a press release.
Outside of her work at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Tsacoumis is well known for her pro bono work with youth-related organizations.
Tsacoumis is a founding member, board member and secretary of the D.C. affiliate of Girls Inc., which organizes after-school activities for middle-school-aged girls.
“I continue to be chagrined that many of the girls that we serve through Girls Inc. have never set foot outside their immediate neighborhoods; a bus ride away from the Mall, they have never been to the Smithsonian, never have seen the Washington Monument or the White House, never have been in an art museum,” Tsacoumis said.
Tsacoumis has managed the legal team for Girls Scouts of America and helped to merge over 300 local councils into 100. She also serves on the Women’s Advisory Board of D.C.’s Girl Scouts.
The Washington Business Journal named Tsacoumis one of the best corporate mergers and acquisitions lawyers in D.C. in 2006 and 2008. Chambers and Partners, Inc. named her a “leading corporate lawyer” in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Tsacoumis will replace Jane Genster, who has served as vice president and general counsel since July 2000.