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Governor.Virginia.gov: Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces Additional Administration and Board Appointments

July 12, 2024

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced administration and board appointments last week. O’Melveny senior counsel Coke Morgan Stewart was appointed to the Board of Social Services. 

Coke is a seasoned intellectual property and appellate litigator with decades of experience in private practice and government service—including serving as the acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office, the second highest-ranking officer of the agency. Before joining O’Melveny, Coke taught Appellate Advocacy at the Regent University School of Law, where she served as faculty advisor to the Intellectual Property Law and Entertainment Society and supervised student scholarship in social media regulation, copyright and patent law. She then served as Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, overseeing hundreds of active federal and state court cases and internal investigations, and supervising 150 attorneys and professionals in the areas of healthcare, education, and social services.

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