Patricia Lee hit the ground running when she joined the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority as general counsel in 2016, where she’s responsible for everything legal at the D.C.-area transportation agency, from litigation over personal injury claims to broader challenges to WMATA policies.

Lee joined WMATA after doing in-house work for several years, including a past general counsel role at the Munich-based communications company, The Unified Group. Before that, she was a Holland & Knight partner and a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.