Gail Thackeray is a former Assistant Attorney General and Special Counsel recently retired from the Arizona Attorney General's Office. Her career prosecuting electronic crimes included the investigation and prosecution of early infrastructure attacks on a telephone network and a power company, as well as numerous fraud, cyberstalking and intrusion crimes. She participated in the nationwide Secret Service hacker investigation known as "Operation Sundevil" and attended the first Defcon Conference. She currently works at the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center as a computer forensic examiner. She has a B.A. from Vassar College, a J.D. from Syracuse University, and earned the CFCE forensics certification from the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS).