Jane Sherburne is Principal of Sherburne PLLC, a legal consulting firm providing strategic advice in crisis environments and in connection with regulatory policy developments.

From 2001 through 2014, Ms. Sherburne served as General Counsel to financial institutions (BNY Mellon, Wachovia and Citi Global Consumer Group).  In that capacity she managed large legal departments and was the primary legal and government relations advisor to Boards and Senior Management. 

Prior to that, Ms. Sherburne practiced law as a litigation partner at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, interrupting her private practice from 1994 to 1997 to serve as Special Counsel to the President in the Clinton White House. 

Ms. Sherburne is a member of the Boards of Directors of Teledyne Technologies, Inc., HSBC North America Holdings Inc., and Perella Weinberg Partners. She Chairs the Board of the National Women’s Law Center and the Board of the Negotiation Strategies Institute, is a member of the Executive Committees of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and Co-Chairs the Committee for Economic Development’s Subcommittee on Sustaining Democratic Institutions.