Tammie Nelson

Some legal tech projects are bigger than others, and when it came time to retire THOMAS, the Library of Congress’s first legislative publishing system, Congress knew it would need an expert. It called on Tammie Nelson, who had been working on THOMAS for the Library of Congress. Nelson was a veteran of both software development and project management, and she led a 40-person team to design, create, and make the transition to the new Congress.gov. This was a major project, with 45 million page views to THOMAS over the preceding 12 months. Even though the transition was enormous, the project was on time, on budget, built largely on open-source software, and concluded without any major interruptions of service to one of the nation’s most important pieces of legislative infrastructure.