Rene Augustine is Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for International and Policy for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Previously, at the Antitrust Division, she was Senior Associate Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Front Office, where she handled the media and entertainment as well as the policy portfolios.

Augustine has served in all three branches of government and in the private sector. Prior to coming to the Justice Department, she was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Counsel to the President. She also served as Associate Counsel to the President in the George W. Bush Administration. Previously, Augustine was Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where she was responsible for Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition issues. Augustine clerked for Judge John Hargrove of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. In the private sector, Augustine was an associate with a major law firm and was an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University Law School. Augustine earned her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, served on the Vanderbilt Moot Court Board and graduated Order of the Coif.