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Elise Bean ’78

Elise Bean ’78 was selected as one of this year’s most influential women lawyers in Washington, by the National Law Journal. She was chosen as one of only 33 in this category, based upon reporting over the past year and nominations from the D.C. legal community. Bean is the Democratic staff director and chief counsel of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The Journal credits Bean and her fellow honorees, which include the two Supreme Court justices, with setting the legal agenda in the nation’s capital. Bean leads a team of Capitol Hill investigators who have explored commodities trading, money laundering, offshore tax evasion, and foreign corruption. Bean has worked for the subcommittee’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), since 1985 and has served as the Democratic staff director since 2003. A Phi Beta Kappa government major at Wesleyan, she earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan.
Elise Bean ’78 was selected as one of this year’s most influential women lawyers in Washington, by the National Law Journal. She was chosen as one of only 33 in this category, based upon reporting over the past year and nominations from the D.C. legal community. Bean is the Democratic staff director and chief counsel of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The Journal credits Bean and her fellow honorees, which include the two Supreme Court justices, with setting the legal agenda in the nation’s capital. Bean leads a team of Capitol Hill investigators who have explored commodities trading, money laundering, offshore tax evasion, and foreign corruption. Bean has worked for the subcommittee’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), since 1985 and has served as the Democratic staff director since 2003. A Phi Beta Kappa government major at Wesleyan, she earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan.