- Born on May 26, 1957 in Moscow.
- Graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University in 1981, and completed post-graduate studies at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1985. Holds a PhD in law. Honoured lawyer of the Russian Federation.
- She began working in 1974 as a consultant at the State Arbitration court at the Moscow Oblast Executive Committee, and later as a legal consultant and senior legal consultant at a number of Moscow enterprises and organizations.
- 1985–1987: Research assistant at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
- 1987–1992: Department Editor; Deputy Editor of the magazine ”Soviet State and Law“.
- 1992–1993: Head specialist of the Legislation Committee of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation; sector head of the Commission of the Republic Council on economic reform of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.
- 1993–1999: Occupied important state positions of state service of the Russian Federation: Head of Department in the Russian Federation Presidential Executive Office; Head of Staff of the Presidential Plenipotentiary in the Federal Assembly; Deputy Head of the Main State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation.
- In 1999, she was appointed Head of the Main State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation.
- In March 2004, she was appointed Aide to the President, and Head of the Presidential State-Legal Directorate.