Cynthia Hogan

Cynthia C. Hogan

Counsel to the Vice President
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Vice President	Joe Biden
Succeeded by	Mark Paoletta

Personal details
Born	1958 (age 58–59) Cincinnati, Ohio
Spouse(s)	Mark M. Katz
Children	Julia (born c:a 1996) David (born c:a 1999)
Residence	Bethesda, Maryland
Education	A.B., J.D.
Alma mater	Oberlin College University of Virginia School of Law
Profession	attorney

Cynthia C. Hogan (born Cincinnati, Ohio about 1958) is the Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs at Apple. Previously Hogan served as Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the National Football League, and prior to that as the Counsel to the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, under President Barack Obama. Hogan previously worked as Chief Counsel to Vice President Biden during his time in the United States Senate and served as Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In 1995, she assisted with the drafting of anti-terrorism legislation.

She has experience with judicial nominations. During the confirmation process for Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, she was (metaphorically) Judge Sotomayor's sherpa.

She holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College (1979), and a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School (1984). She was Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review, then a clerk for U.S. District Court judge Edward Norman Cahn in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was an associate at Williams & Connolly, before going to work for Biden (1991–1996). She advised Biden unofficially while she stayed home raising her children.