Adrienne E. Fowler

Adrienne E. Fowler joined the GW Center for Law and Technology in January 2025 as the inaugural Assistant Dean for the Privacy and Technology Law Program.

Before joining GW Law, Dean Fowler co-chaired the data protection practice at HWG LLP, a DC-based boutique law firm. There, Dean Fowler advised technology, media, and telecommunications companies on complying with US and international data privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, and consumer protection laws. She also helped to shape public policy in these areas, regularly appearing before various US state and federal regulators and federal courts. 

Before her decade in private practice, Dean Fowler was a trial attorney in the US Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch. Her docket focused primarily on (1) combatting the use of technology to commit fraud against consumers and (2) defending challenges to federal agency actions that were designed to protect consumers. Dean Fowler received a special commendation for outstanding service for her work prosecuting online fraud that targeted immigrant communities.

Dean Fowler received her law degree from the University of Michigan, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review, and her bachelor’s degree in biology and political science from Swarthmore College. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero for the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.