Adrienne A. Harris is of counsel and policy advisor at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Most recently, Harris was the superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services. She was nominated to the role by Governor Kathy Hochul in August 2021 and left the post in October 2025 as the longest serving superintendent. Harris was a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, chaired by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen – a post to which she was elected by her fellow state banking regulators; a member of the Board of Directors of the Conference of State Banking Supervisors; and a member of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Superintendent Harris started her career as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP in New York, where her practice included representing financial institutions in complex regulatory proceedings and M&A transactions. While at the firm, Adrienne was tapped to serve as an advisor to numerous local, state, and national political campaigns and transitions.
Harris left Sullivan & Cromwell to serve as a senior advisor to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, and then served as a special assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council where her portfolio included financial reform, financial technology, cyber security, consumer protection, housing finance, affordable housing, and inclusive entrepreneurship. At the White House, Harris spearheaded the development of the Administration’s fintech strategy, establishing and chairing both the Interagency Fintech Working Group and the Administration’s Distributed Ledger Technology Task Force.
After leaving the White House, Harris was a founding executive at DOMA, an artificial intelligence-based insurtech company based in San Francisco. After the company scaled, Harris spent time as a professor of the practice at the University of Michigan, as well as a co-director of the Center for Finance, Law and Policy at the University. She was also an early- and growth-stage investor and advisor. Additionally, Harris was a senior advisor at the Brunswick Group.
Harris earned her M.B.A. from the New York University Stern School of Business with specializations in Economics and Management, her J.D. from Columbia University Law School where she was a member of the Columbia Law Review, and her B.A. from Georgetown University where she was a John Carroll Scholar and graduated with honors.