Associate Vice President & Counsel, Policy & Federal Relations, Association of American Universities
Kate Hudson serves as the Deputy Vice President and Counsel for Government Relations and Public Policy with the Association of American Universities. Her portfolio includes intellectual property, technology transfer, export controls, open and public access, data privacy, SBIR/STTR, tax, university endowments, and copyright issues. She also leads AAU’s General Counsels (GC) constituent group and Council of Federal Relations Tax Task Force.
Prior to AAU, Kate served as legal counsel in both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. As senior counsel in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), she provided legal counsel on federal governance, financial management, and provided legislative drafting expertise to members of Congress and committee staff. Prior to GAO she served as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), where she provided regulatory expertise and represented the agency as a litigator before administrative tribunals and the federal courts. While at OPM, she also served as agency counsel in the class action litigation following the 2015 OPM cyberbreach.
She holds a Master of Public Administration and Policy from American University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Dayton School of Law, and both a Master and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Ohio University. She is licensed to practice law in Georgia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. An active-duty Army spouse of 20 years, she currently resides in northern Virginia with her husband and two children.
