[2][1] Jeffress graduated from Williams College and obtained a master's degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin.
[2] She worked as a national security counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder and then as the Justice department attache at the U.S. embassy in London for three years.
[3] During her tenure as a national security prosecutor at the DOJ, she consulted with U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who then agreed in 2008 to unseal documents from the FBI investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks.
[4] As an advisor to Holder, she created interagency task forces to review the cases of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
[14] In 2020 and 2021, Jeffress represented Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat involved in a fatal car crash in the United Kingdom.