Glynn Key

Glynn Key has more than 20 years' experience as an attorney in both the public and private sectors. Glynn Key currently serves as General Counsel for GE Water & Process Technologies, a position she has held since 2006. From July of 2006 to July of 2007, Key held a joint position at GE, working as General Counsel for the company's Gasification Business. In that role, Glynn Key was solely responsible for winning the regulatory approval of one of the country's largest commercial power plants.

Glynn Key spent three years working in the first Clinton Administration as Counselor to former Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Associate Solicitor at the United States Department of the Interior. During this time she notably helped break through political acrimony to negotiate the $700 million Everglades Restoration settlement.

Key left the government position in 1996 for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where she became a partner based in Washington, D.C. In the ten years she spent with the firm, Key worked on a broad range of corporate legal deals. Key earned her Bachelor's of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1986. Key also attended law school at UVA, and went on to earn her Juris Doctor in 1989.

From 2004 to 2012 Glynn Key sat on UVA's Board of Visitors. During her tenure on the Board, Key worked to protect and promote the needs of the school's undergraduates and to augment diversity among students and faculty. She also assisted with updating UVA's technology transfer program.