Allison Ishihara Fultz is Chief Counsel of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). She is the principal legal advisor to the agency and leads FRA's staff of legal professionals.

Chief Counsel Fultz joined FRA from private practice, where she focused her work on transactional and regulatory matters related to transportation infrastructure projects. She represented public transportation providers, a transit safety oversight agency, State departments of transportation and regional transportation bodies, local governments, and private entities nationwide before numerous federal agencies and state and federal courts. She counseled clients extensively on the acquisition and abandonment of railroad rights-of-way, shared use of rail corridors by freight and passenger operators, rails-to-trails proposals, regulation and contracting for inter-city passenger rail service, infrastructure project development, historic preservation, environmental reporting, agency rulemaking, project procurement, and drafting and negotiation of contracts for railroad construction, operations, and maintenance services.

Ms. Fultz has also authored studies and served as a committee member for the Transportation Research Board.

Prior to entering the practice of law, Ms. Fultz was a registered architect and designed and directed construction projects and feasibility studies for projects in the United States and Canada. She served on the Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Appeals, including as its Chairman, for eight years, depending on petitions for relief under the County's zoning ordinance on numerous land use and administrative matters.

Ms. Fultz received her JD from the American University Washington College of Law, and her AB and Master of Architecture degrees from Princeton University.