Ms. Sampson currently serves as the Director for the Division of New and Renewed Licenses in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). She joined the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2007, and has served in various capacities including, Senior Project Manager, Thermal and Containment Branch Chief, and Licensing Branch Chief in the Division of Spent Fuel Management in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Executive Technical Assistant in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations, Chief of the Reactor Security Branch, Deputy Director and Acting Director for the Division of Physical and Cyber Security Policy in the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, Deputy Director in the Division of Engineering in NRR, and Director for the Division of Engineering, in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Prior to joining the NRC, Ms. Sampson worked at the Department of Transportation and at USEC’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.  Ms. Sampson is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.