Mary Boies
American businesswoman
Mary McInnis Boies (born Mary McInnis, formerly Schuman; born June 30, 1950) is an American attorney working as counsel to Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, where she specializes in antitrust and corporate commercial litigation. Boies was a founding partner of the American law firm Boies & McInnis LLP. The law firm, established in 1988, specialized in antitrust and corporate commercial litigation.
Early life and education
Boies was born Mary McInnis in Newton, New Jersey, the daughter of Sara Louise 'Sally' (née Bollinger) and Norman Kenneth McInnis Jr. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English from the University of Washington and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law.
Career
Boies began her legal career in 1975 when she won the annual fellowship to the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. She worked on the early hearings relating to airline passenger and cargo deregulation. In 1977, she transferred to the White House Office and served as assistant director of the domestic policy staff with a portfolio of economic deregulation relating to the airline, trucking, and rail industries. During her tenure, the Airline Deregulation Act was enacted.
In 1979, she became general counsel to the Civil Aeronautics Board. She oversaw a staff of 50 lawyers who managed the deregulation process leading to the final transfer of regulatory authority to the Departments of Justice (antitrust) State (international) and Transportation (certain consumer protection and other functions) under the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.
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