Elizabeth S. Oesterle joined NRF as Government Relations Counsel in September 2002. She was promoted to Senior Director, Government Relations Counsel in 2003 and Vice President, Government Relations Counsel in 2007. As a member of NRF's lobbying team, her primary legislative responsibilities include banking, bankruptcy reform, legal reform, sales tax simplification, technology and consumer privacy, among other issues.

Oesterle came to NRF from the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she was counsel to Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and served in the committee's Commercial Law Unit with a focus on bankruptcy law and legal reform. As such, she played a major role in negotiating and drafting the 2002 conference report on bankruptcy reform, and in coordinating legislative strategy with the House, Senate and Administration. Oesterle previously served as counsel to House Judiciary Committee member Representative Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, where she worked on bankruptcy and tort reform, among other issues.

Before coming to Washington, Oesterle was a law clerk in the New York State Attorney General's Office and interned for Massachusetts Governor William Weld. She holds a law degree from Fordham University School of Law and is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross. She is a resident of Washington, D.C.