Heather Bupp, Esq.

Heather Bupp, Esq.

Heather Bupp, Esq.

1987 Political Science
Ethics Counsel

Biography

Heather Bupp (’87, political science) is deputy chief counsel to the Ethics Specialty Team in the Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC.  Previously, she was associate ethics counselor in the Departmental Ethics Office for the U.S. Department of Interior in Reston, Virginia. She has been an adjunct professor of legal ethics and professional responsibility at universities including Georgetown and Emory, and at law schools including American University Washington College of Law and the University of the District of Columbia. In 2009 Heather was a fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism, a consortium of nationally recognized centers on law, ethics and professionalism, located at Georgia State Law School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Heather received her Juris Doctorate from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and she has held various counsel/leadership positions since graduating from Penn State, including tenures with the U.S. Department of Labor, the Rockville Scholarship Foundation, the District of Columbia Bar, Americorps, the Upper Montgomery Assistance Network, and as a private practitioner.

Heather Bupp