Ms. Dellinger teaches Privacy Law and Policy at the Duke University School of Law and at the UNC School of Law. She is also the Special Counsel for Privacy Policy and Litigation for the NC Department of Justice. Previously, she served as the founding Program Manager for Data Privacy Day. She turned Data Privacy Day into a globally recognized event to raise awareness for privacy, with a specific focus on recognizing globally shared privacy interests and mechanisms for dialogue and collaboration. Ms. Dellinger has worked as a privacy lawyer at Intel Corporation, at The Privacy Projects and at the National Cyber Security Alliance. She is currently a member of the Data Privacy Day Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Book Harvest.
Prior to working for Intel, Jolynn worked as a staff attorney for Judge W. Earl Britt in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (1998-2007), as a Fellow in the Solicitor General’s Office in the U.S. Department of Justice (1994-95), and as a clerk for Judge Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1993-94). She has also practiced at law firms in Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, taught Family Law at Duke Law School and Legal Writing at UNC School of Law. Ms. Dellinger received her B.A. in English from Columbia University. She also received a masters in Humanities (with a concentration in Women’s Studies) and a law degree from Duke University, where she graduated Order of the Coif and was an Editor on the Duke Law Journal.