In 2020, Ms. Ricci served on the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee, a five-member panel of Highly Qualified Experts that authored an in-depth assessment of the Fort Hood command climate and its impact on soldiers, particularly as it related to preventing sexual assault and sexual harassment. The assessment led to sweeping reforms across the Army and was the impetus for additional reforms across all military services.

Ms. Ricci’s prior appointments include a decade of service in the US Department of Agriculture Office of the General Counsel, where she served as a senior executive. She is also a former Assistant General Counsel to the Department of Defense Education Activity and served in the U.S. Army in a variety of senior attorney roles, including Chief of International Law for U.S. Central Command and Deputy Staff Judge Advocate to the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command. She entered active duty as an Adjutant General Corp officer before attending law school through the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program. She twice deployed to combat zones and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Ms. Ricci holds two Master of Laws (LL.M.), the first in Intellectual Property from the George Washington University Law School, and the second in Military Law from Army JAG School. She earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Finance and International Management) from Georgetown University.

Ms. Ricci is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States.