In this role, Bailey leverages her extensive legal expertise to guide the company through regulatory landscapes and legal business matters, provides strategic counsel to AccuWeather’s leadership, and directs the company’s Legal team. Over the course of her time at AccuWeather, she has played a key legal role in the strategic development of AccuWeather services, products, advanced technologies, commercial transactions, and programs from their initial stages to successful launch. Bailey has also been instrumental in proactively managing risks related to compliance and regulatory requirements, including data protection, privacy laws, and securing and maximizing AccuWeather’s Intellectual Property portfolio.

Bailey joined AccuWeather as an Assistant General Counsel in 2019, working across all of the company’s weather, digital technology, and data business lines. She was promoted to Associate General Counsel in 2022, and most recently served as Acting General Counsel since August of 2023 before being elevated to her current role as General Counsel in February of 2024.

As a member of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) committee at AccuWeather, Bailey developed a partnership with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to reestablish the June Bacon-Bercey Scholarship for Women, named after the first African American woman to earn a degree in meteorology and became the first female meteorologist on television. She received the AccuWeather Champions of Excellence (ACE) award for leadership in 2021.

Prior to joining the AccuWeather team, Bailey was an Associate at Garson, Ségal, Steinmetz, Fladgate LLP, where she served as a lead patent associate working in the engineering and technology space. Her past experience also includes roles at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and with Hon. Duane A. Hart at the New York State Supreme Court.

Bailey holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, where she graduated Cum Laude, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with honors from McGill University in Montreal, Québec.