Rae Cogar, Esq. 

Bio Summary

Rae N. Cogar, Esq., specializes in the management of corporate records, including privacy, policy, regulatory compliance, security, retention, and destruction, with a special focus on electronic documents and electronic signature technologies. With 20 years in records and information systems management, Cogar has provided records management consulting services to the various government agencies and was an original member of the digital signature working group to develop department of energy agency policy for digital signatures.

Ms. Cogar began her legal career as an Assistant Attorney General with the Territory of Guam and became Project Manager for the development of the child support enforcement software program for the Territory.  Ms. Cogar has provided records management consulting services to the Department of Energy and was an original member of the digital signature-working group to develop DOE agency policy for digital signatures.  Ms. Cogar served as a consultant for ECLIPS (Electronic Commerce, Law and Information Policy Strategies), a program of the Ohio Supercomputer Center of the Ohio State University and provided consulting services to the State of Ohio, Department of Administrative Services, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and was a member of the State of Ohio, Archives and Records Division, Electronic Records Committee. As Senior Staff Attorney for a technology start-up company, in Baltimore, Maryland, Ms. Cogar provided records management guidance to the software development team.

Ms. Cogar holds a juris doctor from Capital Law School in Columbus, Ohio; and a B.A./Business, Records and Information Systems Management from Notre Dame College, in Cleveland, Ohio.