JUDITH LEE Partner Gibson, Dunn, Crutcher LLP

Judith A. Lee is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, practicing in the areas of international trade regulation, including USA Patriot Act compliance, economic sanctions and embargoes, export controls, customs, international privacy issues, international intellectual property issues and international labor issues.

Ms. Lee was selected by Chambers and Partners as a Leading International Trade Lawyer in its 2007 "Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers in America" guide for both 2006 and 2007.  She was also named by the Washington Business Journal as one of the Best Lawyers in the Washington, D.C. area for International Trade and Finance Law in 2006, and as one of Washington's Best Lawyers for International Trade by Washingtonian magazine in 2004.  Ms. Lee is a regular speaker and commentator at seminars and conferences, as well as author of numerous articles on international trade and finance.

Mrs. Lee is the past Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Export Controls and Embargoes, and was a past chair of the American Bar Association Customs Law Committee.  She was appointed by the Chief Judge of the Court of International Trade to that court's Rules Advisory Committee and Jurisdiction Committee.  She is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association.

In 1992, Mrs. Lee was licensed by the Department of the Treasury as a customshouse broker, having received the highest score in the country on the customshouse broker's examination, administered by the United States Customs Service.

Mrs. Lee is a member of the Bars of Virginia and the District of Columbia.  Mrs. Lee received her law degree in 1987 from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary and her bachelor of arts in 1984 from Mount Holyoke College, where she studied Chinese and politics.  In 1983 and 1984, she attended Donghai University in Taiwan, where she studied Chinese language, culture and politics.  Mrs. Lee is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.  She is a member of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Diversity Committee.