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Jena Baker McNeill is a homeland security policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation.    

Before joining Heritage in 2008, McNeill worked as a Research Assistant for Hutchinson Group LLC, a homeland security consulting firm founded by Asa Hutchinson, former Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security at the Department of Homeland Security. 

She previously worked as an Environmental Management Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton and as a Staff Assistant for Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. 

She earned a degree from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock School of Law in 2008, where she was a member of the Moot Court Board and Federalist Society.  During law school, she clerked for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary-Antitrust Subcommittee and several Arkansas criminal and business litigation firms. 

McNeill received a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of Maryland, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.  She has worked on several high-profile gubernatorial and congressional campaigns and was a legislative intern for Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WVA)  

She resides in North Beach, Md., with her husband, Greg McNeill, where they attend Friendship United Methodist Church.