Agnes Dover spent her working years in Washington, DC, retiring as a partner at Hogan Lovells, an international law firm. She and her husband, Jack, became Arizona residents in 2017.
During her tenure at Hogan Lovells, Dover headed the firm’s government regulatory group and oversaw more than 300 lawyers in the United States and Europe. She also spent several years in public service as deputy general counsel of the United States Department of Energy.
Dover grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in a family that loved music. Her grandmother took her to her first opera, The Barber of Seville, when Dover was 9, and every Saturday afternoon the radio was tuned to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcasts from New York. She played the flute in her high school orchestra and, briefly, in the marching band.
During their years in the Washington, DC, area, Dover and her husband supported and frequently attended concerts by the Alexandria Symphony and the Washington Opera. In her 50s, she started taking piano lessons, and she is still practicing her scales and chord progressions.
Dover serves on the board of trustees of her alma mater, Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio, where supporting the school’s nationally recognized music theatre program is a passion.