Krystal J. Brumfield
Associate Administrator for the Office of Government-wide Policy,
General Services Administration (GSA),
Krystal J. Brumfield is an attorney and accomplished executive with nearly 20 years of proven leadership
experience in the public and private sectors. She currently serves as a Presidential appointee in the
Biden-Harris Administration. As the Associate Administrator for the Office of Government-wide Policy at
the General Services Administration (GSA), Krystal manages the direction of acquisition policy to ensure
the promotion of effective business practices and the timely delivery of best value products for an agency
that leverages approximately $75 billion dollars annually in contracts and manages a real estate portfolio
of nearly 370 million rentable square feet. Among other roles, she is designated as GSA’s Chief
Acquisition Officer (CAO) and represents GSA as Co-Chair of the CAO Council.
Krystal recently served as Chief of Staff for Carlyle Airport Group (CAG) Holdings, LLC, the Carlyle
Group’s dedicated US-based investment platform for airport infrastructure investment opportunities
globally. As Chief of Staff, she managed the cross-collaboration between CAG’s Washington, DC and
New York teams to redevelop the $7.4 billion Terminal One at JFK Airport, the largest public private
partnership (P3) airport infrastructure project in U.S. history.
Prior to joining CAG, Krystal was the President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Airport Minority
Advisory Council (AMAC), a national trade association that represents thousands of airports,
corporations, and small businesses in the aviation and aerospace industries. She was recognized for
driving growth and innovation at AMAC and was named in the top 25 of “Women in Power Impacting
Diversity” by DiversityPlus Magazine as well as awarded “Outstanding Woman in Law” by Hofstra
University School of Law.
Krystal’s additional professional experiences include Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of the DC
Chamber of Commerce, Tax & Procurement Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business
and Entrepreneurship, Visiting Instructor for the International Law Institute South African Centre for
Excellence and Sales & Use Tax Attorney for the Louisiana Department of Revenue.
She currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Aero Club of Washington and previously served
on the Board of Providence Hospital’s Foundation and the DC Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) as
Commissioner and Vice Chair, appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser. She was also appointed by Mayor
Bowser to serve on the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee of the ReOpen DC Advisory
Group amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Krystal holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting from Southern University, where she was a Bill Gates
Millennium Scholar. She also earned a Juris Doctorate from the Southern University Law Center and
obtained a Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is admitted
to practice law before Louisiana State Courts (2007) and the United States District Court for the Middle
District of Louisiana (2008). Krystal is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
A Louisiana native, Krystal currently resides in Washington, DC.