Beth Cate is Associate General Counsel for Indiana University. One area of particular focus for her is the law and ethics concerning the use of information technologies. Beth is also an adjunct member of the faculty in the University's School for Public and Environmental Affairs. Before joining the University in 1998, Beth served as in-house counsel for Eli Lilly and Company, practicing in a variety of areas; clerked for the Hon. S. Jay Plager of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and practiced with the law firm of McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna Long & Aldridge) in Washington D.C. Beth holds a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is currently serving on NACUA’s Board of Directors.   Beth is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Indianapolis Zoo and a weekend volunteer helping to care for the Zoo's African elephants, including her adopted elephant daughter, Tombi. She tries to refrain from comparing the university setting to a zoo, but frequently fails.

Amy Foerster is an Associate in the Litigation Department at Saul Ewing, where she focuses her practice on employment and general commercial litigation, as well as a wide variety of legal issues impacting institutions of postsecondary education. Prior to joining Saul Ewing, Ms. Foerster served as a Senior Deputy Attorney General with the Civil Litigation Section of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Office of Attorney General. Her employment litigation experience includes defending against claims brought under the First Amendment, Title VII, Title IX, the Equal Pay Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Her education litigation experience includes defending against actions brought under the IDEA, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Ms. Foerster was also the Office of Attorney General's point person for the implementation of the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding electronic discovery, including the presentation of CLE courses to state government and private practice attorneys. Prior to her service with the Office of Attorney General, Ms. Foerster was with the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office of Chief Counsel, where she served as primary counsel to the Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education, addressing issues involving colleges and universities, community colleges, and private licensed career training schools. Prior to joining the Department of Education, Ms. Foerster was an associate with a Harrisburg-based insurance defense law firm. She focused her practice on medical malpractice defense litigation and represented physicians and medical institutions throughout central Pennsylvania.  

Dana Lesemann is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Stroz Friedberg, LLC, in Washington, D.C. where she manages domestic and multi-national engagements involving data preservation and analysis in connection with internal corporate investigations and electronic discovery. Before joining Stroz Friedberg, Ms. Lesemann served as Senior Investigative Counsel for the Investigative Project, the Washington, D.C.-based research institute that tracks, analyzes, and reports on terrorism in the United States and abroad. She directed projects analyzing data derived from criminal prosecutions after the September 11th attacks, reform of the U.S. Intelligence Community, money laundering and alternative methods used to finance terrorism activities in the United States and abroad, domestic intelligence collection, and other issues involving international terrorism. Ms. Lesemann served as a law clerk to the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania with honors and her J.D. from the Duke University School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Article Editor of the Duke Law Journal.