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Michelle Crawford
Sr. Vice President and General Counsel
Ms. Crawford is Sr. Vice President, General Counsel, Compliance Officer and Board Secretary at ATI. In these roles, she serves as legal advisor to ATI Leadership and the ATI Board of Directors. The Legal Department provides guidance designed to minimize legal risk and costs, reduce litigation exposure, and protect ATI assets. The Compliance Department ensures ATI, its Directors, Officers, Employees and partners abide by applicable legal, regulatory and policy standards. She provides advice on corporate governance, general corporate and regulatory matters, human resources and employment, and coordinates compliance with laws and regulations applicable to ATI’s business operations. She also serves as the lead on any disputes, claims and litigation and is ATI’s initial point of contact for outside legal counsel.
Ms. Crawford establishes the annual legal and compliance budgets, coordinates responses to non-standard Government investigations and audits and is responsible for creating, updating, and/or maintaining a variety of internal records related to trademarks and other intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and other documentation related to or created by the Legal and Compliance Departments. She also conducts a variety of legal reviews, coordinates and provides guidance on internal investigations and assists in negotiations related to real property/leases, branding and other public facing material, contracts and procurement.
Ms. Crawford was previously an Administrative Law Judge for the Federal Government. She also served as the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel for an international engineering, construction and consulting management company with similar duties and responsibilities as those she now performs for ATI. In addition, she was the founder and managing partner of Crawford-Hill Law, a law firm focused on government contracts disputes, military criminal and administrative matters and other federal claims. She also served as the Charleston District Counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including a tour in Afghanistan. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Oceanside Collegiate Academy, a non-profit publicly funded, privately operated high school in Mount Pleasant, SC.
Ms. Crawford retired from the U.S. Army Reserves (USAR) in May 2020 after 30 years of commissioned service, commanded twice at the O-6 (Colonel) level and served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for a combined 14 years on active duty and 16 years in the USAR. She obtained her commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate from the ROTC program at The University of Miami where she also earned her B.A. in Criminal Justice. The Army granted her an educational delay which she utilized to obtain her Juris Doctorate from The University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Ms. Crawford is also a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS; obtained an L.L.M. in Military Law (with a concentration in Criminal Law) from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, VA; and earned a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA. She is also a proud boy-mom to three great young men.
