Tom Bowman, in a brightly colored blue jacket, bald head and beard smiling outside in front of a sunny coastline.

Tom Bowman

Policy Counsel, Security & Surveillance

Tom Bowman serves as policy counsel with CDT’s Security & Surveillance Project. Prior to joining CDT, Tom worked as an assistant public defender at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, where he represented indigent clients on misdemeanor and felony charges. Tom also interned at the Federal Public Defender for the District of Alaska and worked as a student attorney at the NYU School of Law Federal Appellate Clinic.

Before law school, Tom taught English at a high school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Tom also volunteered at a civil society organization in Bulgaria dedicated to promoting civil rights and free expression. Tom earned his B.S. in International Relations at the University of Iowa and his J.D. at the NYU School of Law.