AbouT Caroline

Caroline Lynch is the founder and owner of Copper Hill Strategies, LLC, providing client-focused government relations, strategic planning, legislative, and business development services. With over two decades of legal and policy-making experience, Caroline successfully advocates for her clients with federal and state lawmakers on a variety of issues and guides clients through complex regulatory compliance.

Caroline launched Copper Hill Strategies in 2017 following an extensive career on Capitol Hill, including a decade with the House Judiciary Committee, where she served for eight years as the Chief Counsel of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Caroline was at the forefront of developing some of the most high-profile privacy, cybersecurity, national security, and criminal laws of the 21st Century, including updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act and FISA Amendments Act.

Caroline has been actively engaged in cybersecurity policy for over a decade, from leading the Bipartisan Encryption Working Group following the San Bernardino terrorist attack, to recent enactment of federal cyber breach notification laws.  

Caroline has also advised clients on federal legislation addressing encryption, facial recognition, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and immigration and border security. She successfully advocated for the creation of Arizona’s fintech sandbox, has helped clients navigate compliance with state and federal marijuana and hemp laws, and assisted clients with CARES Act and American Rescue Act funding.

Prior to joining the Judiciary Committee, Caroline served as Chief Counsel of the House Republican Policy Committee, Deputy County Attorney for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, and Clerk for the Arizona Court of Appeals. She previously served in the personal office of former Congressman John Shadegg from 1996 to 2000. 

Caroline is Vice Chair of the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation board, Vice Chair of the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations board, member of the Arizona Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and the Arizona Technology Council. She has guest-lectured at the ASU, Texas A & M, and George Mason law schools, and is a Visiting Fellow at the George Mason Law National Security Institute. Caroline is a Distinguished Fellow at the ASU Masters in International Affairs and Leadership program and a 2003 graduate of the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.