Andrea Short Email & Phone Number

Taking a pragmatic, collaborative approach, I help Verizon navigate and mitigate the risks to achieving its business strategy. From 2019 until late 2022, I served as general counsel for Verizon’s Public Sector business unit, leading the team that provides legal advice and contracting support to help Verizon achieve its mission of being the market leader in wireless and wireline communications and technology solutions for federal, state and local government customers throughout the US. In this role, I built a high impact, diverse team with complementary experience, strengths and perspectives. My team and I were at the table with our business partners, and focused on developing deep client relationships and prioritizing customer considerations to enable our unit to build a strong track record of compliance and growth. I began my career with Verizon in 2005, when I joined MCI, a Verizon predecessor company, as an attorney in the litigation group. I spent 8 years handling a wide array of complex business customer, vendor and inter-carrier litigation for Verizon, eventually assuming primary responsibility for investigations and litigation arising out of Verizon’s government contracts. In 2013, I moved from litigation to business counseling, eventually becoming general counsel for Verizon's wireline Public Sector business and then subsequently Verizon’s Business Markets unit, which focused on wireline sales to small businesses and state and local government customers. Prior to moving in house, I was a litigation associate with the law firms Richards Layton & Finger and Womble Carlyle. I am a graduate of Washington & Lee University Law School, where I was a managing editor of the Washington & Lee Law Review, and hold a BA in political science from Davidson College.