Since 1998, Ms. Egger has managed a legal staff responsible for providing legal counsel to the procurement, financial assistance, technology transfer and intellectual property activities of program offices throughout the Department, including the Offices of Environmental Management, Fossil Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Nuclear Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and Science.  Ms. Egger also provides counsel regarding the formulation of policy positions by the Department on procurement and technology transfer legislative and regulatory initiatives.  Ms. Egger has played leadership roles in numerous high-level Departmental negotiations and projects, including the resolution of issues and high dollar value claims with large electric companies, multi-national corporations and small businesses involving key departmental projects such as the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, uranium enrichment enterprise, the Technology Transfer Working Group, the Tank Waste Retrieval System, Elk Hills sale and equity finalization, and DOE's Privatization Working Group to name a few.

Before that, Ms. Egger served as the Department of Energy's Assistant General Counsel for Procurement and Financial Assistance, where she managed a legal staff providing legal counsel to procurement and financial assistance matters across the Department.  During this time, Ms. Egger played a key role in DOE's Contract Reform initiatives, and also served as the Federal Government's senior lawyer on the February 1998 sale of the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in California to Occidental Petroleum Corporation for $3.65 billion, the U.S. Government's largest privatization effort.

Ms. Egger also practiced in the General Counsel Office's International Affairs Law Division at the Department of Energy where she served in a variety of roles, including Deputy Assistant General Counsel; program counsel to the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and as a member of the energy working group for the negotiations leading to the North America Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  She served as a procurement staff attorney for the Automated Data and Telecommunications Service and the Federal Supply Service in the Office of General Counsel of the General Services Administration.

Ms. Egger graduated (cum laude) from the University of Dayton School of Law, where she served as Technical Editor of the Law Review, and she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Chester State College (now West Chester University) in 1974.  She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.