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2020 OAD Counsel for Justice Award

DANIELLE C. GRAY

Danielle C. Gray is Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of North Carolina.

Prior to her role at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Danielle was a partner at O’Melveny &
Myers LLP, where she advised health care companies, financial services institutions, universities, and other
clients on litigation, internal investigations, and government enforcement actions.

Danielle also served in several leadership roles in the White House and Department of Justice. As Assistant
to the President and Cabinet Secretary, Danielle was responsible for policy and communications coordination
among all Cabinet-level agencies. As Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she advised the
President and senior staff on key economic policy decisions. As Associate Counsel to the President, Danielle
provided legal advice on domestic and economic policy initiatives, and served as one of the principal
lawyers advising the Office of Health Reform on the Affordable Care Act. She also played a lead role on
judicial selection, including the nomination and confirmation of two justices to the United States Supreme
Court. And as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, she helped supervise
litigation of high-impact civil cases at the Justice Department on areas ranging from health care to civil
rights to labor law.

Danielle earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and public policy from Duke University and her law
degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She served as a
law clerk to Chief Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice
Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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