Mary Cornaby

Bio

Mary came to the Center for Innovation in the spring of 2025, after a career in librarianship, law, teaching, editing, and research.

She has been the director of the United States Senate legal and legislative library, the head of the research and publications unit for the Office of the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice, the editor for the Foreign Law Division at the Law Library of Congress, and a senior records and privacy specialist for the United States Government Accountability Office.

She was a faculty research librarian at the University of Maryland School of Law, teaching legal research and some writing courses.  She next went to Villanova University School of Law, where she became the Assistant Dean for Academic Technology, also teaching technology in law practice courses.  She returned to the University of Maryland School of Law as their first Assistant Dean for Academic Technology, teaching a seminar course in speech and privacy issues in cyberspace.

Mary has been a lawyer in private practice and the legal editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and she has taught graduate research and writing courses for the College of Management and Technology at the University of Maryland University College. She has also been a multistate law firm library director, a high school librarian, and a writing teacher.

Mary earned a J.D. degree from Seattle University School of Law, where she was a law review editor.  She also holds a master’s degree in library and information science from the Information School at the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in English and education.