Steven Parker joined the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as the Chief Innovation Officer (CInO) in December 2022. Steven and his team are charged with enhancing TSA’s innovation capacity by connecting, enabling and incorporating innovative technology and process ideas from passengers, employees and transportation industry partners, throughout TSA and the greater transportation security ecosystem.

Most recently Steven served as General Counsel at Story Brand, a major brand and marketing company representing Fortune 500 companies, where he provided legal counsel to team members in the development of messaging for the company’s customers. Prior to his role at Story Brand, Steven served as the Deputy State Director for U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff. He was the Senator’s liaison and primary point of contact for elected and community stakeholders throughout the state of Georgia. Steven has extensive experience leading strategic initiatives, as Political Director for the Ossoff for Senate Campaign; Community Specialist for the City of Raleigh, North Carolina; Community Affairs Manager for Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan; Political Director of the California No On Prop 38 Campaign; Southern California Outreach Coordinator for the California Complete Count Campaign; and as Field Representative for California State Senator Herschel Rosenthal.

Steven began his legal career in 2005 with the law firm of Balch & Bingham, LLP in Birmingham, Alabama. During this time, he was the co-author of the American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial Insurance Practice Section’s Annual Survey of Recent Developments in Title Insurance Law, a regular presenter of National Business Institute seminars on title insurance principles, and was the first African American Chair of the ABA Title Insurance Litigation Committee. Steven was an adjunct faculty member at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, where he taught an undergraduate course in trial advocacy in conjunction with coaching the Samford University Mock Trial Team, and taught torts and real estate law in the Paralegal Studies Certification Program. His private sector experience includes serving as Vice President and Senior Counsel with Fidelity National Title Group, the largest title insurance company in the United States and as Senior City Attorney for the Mayor of Atlanta, which required negotiation and completion of multimillion dollar commercial real estate transactions.

Steven earned his B.A. from California State University Northridge and his J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law. He is a member in good standing of both the Georgia and Alabama Bars. Steven cultivates high level long-term relationships and innovative ideas that provide value to elected officials, non-elected officials, business leaders, community leaders and other stakeholders.