Sean C.E. McDonough is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the nation's largest voluntary health organization and a global authority on diabetes. Since 1940, the ADA has been committed to its mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Mr. McDonough leads the ADA’s Legal Affairs Division overseeing the ADA’s contracts, transactions, intellectual property portfolio, risk management, compliance and litigation, all with a goal of helping the ADA to achieve its mission while employing best practices and being a great business steward to all who support the ADA and the diabetes community. Mr. McDonough also provides legal, compliance and parliamentarian guidance to the ADA’s Board of Directors, Bylaws Committees, Task Forces and ADA’s Research Foundation.

Mr. McDonough joined the ADA in 2016 after 25 years in private practice providing counsel to for profit and nonprofit businesses and governmental entities on governance, transactions, acquisitions, employment matters, regulatory compliance, intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. He is licensed in Virginia and the District of Columbia.  Mr. McDonough has successfully served as first chair lead in over 100 jury and bench trials in Federal and State courts in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia and briefed and argued dozens of appeals in the highest courts in those jurisdictions.

Prior to practicing law, Mr. McDonough worked for Price Waterhouse in its Audit division focusing on technology, manufacturing, nonprofit and financial institutions and serving on a fraud auditing team.

Mr. McDonough earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce with a concentration in Accounting from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and his Juris Doctor from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He and his family reside in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.