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Dawn Eilenberger '79

2019 Alumni Achievement Award Winner

Following her retirement in 2017 after a 35-year career in the U.S. government intelligence community, Dawn Eilenberger ’79 served as general counsel and senior vice president for EagleForce Health, a healthcare technology and data analytics firm. She left EagleForce to work on contract with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Center for the Study of Intelligence where she is working on a study of CIA relations with Congress.

Eilenberger retired from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as deputy director under then-Director Dan Coats.  Her long career in government service began in the Office of General Counsel at the CIA where she held various positions including: chief, Special Activities Division; chief, Administrative Law; and, principal, Deputy General Counsel.  She went on to serve as the CIA’s director of finance and later as director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity.

Eilenberger held several senior positions at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), including deputy director of security and installations and director of international affairs & policy.  In 2011, she became NGA’s second statutory inspector general, responsible for investigating potential fraud, misconduct and intelligence oversight violations. In 2014, she joined the ODNI as assistant director of national intelligence for policy & strategy where she led intelligence community-wide initiatives. In April 2017, she was appointed deputy director providing leadership on strategic intelligence community activities.