comcast | Harris provides legal advice to the NBCUniversal senior management
team and supervises the legal function, which handles legal matters for
all of NBCUniversal’s business units. She also coordinates
NBCUniversal’s global regulatory and legislative agenda.
Harris joined NBCUniversal in 2013 from Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she was a partner in the litigation department.
From
2010 to 2012, Harris served in the White House Counsel’s Office, and
became the principal Deputy Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the
President in 2011. At the White House, she advised senior Executive
Branch officials on congressional investigations and executive privilege
issues. In addition, Harris developed and implemented the White House
response to congressional investigations, and managed litigation matters
relating to the President.
From 2009 to 2010, she was Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division.
Harris
first joined Davis Polk & Wardwell as an associate in 1997 and was
named a litigation partner in 2007. From 1996 to 1997, she served as a
law clerk to the Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., U.S. District Court,
S.D. New York.
She serves on the boards of directors for Advocates
for Children of New York, an organization that provides legal and
advocacy services to at-risk students in the New York City school
system, and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School
of Law. Harris is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Yale Law
School Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
Harris graduated
magna cum laude from Harvard University, and holds a law degree from
Yale Law School. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her
husband and three sons.
