Roderick A. Palmore is an American lawyer and businessperson. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
He graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. [2] [5]
He started his career as assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Illinois. [2] [3] [4] From 1986 to 1993, he was a partner at the law firm Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. [2] [3] [4] In 1993, he joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. [2] [3] [4]
From 1996 to 2008, he worked at the Sara Lee Corporation, including as Executive Vice President and General Counsel from 2004 to 2008. [1] [2] [4] In 2008, he joined General Mills, where he serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance and Risk Management Officer and Secretary. [1] [2] [4] He serves on the Board of Directors of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. [1] [2] [4] [5] He served on the Boards of Nuveen Investments and United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. [2] [5]
He sits on the Executive Committee of the Association of General Counsel. [3] [4] He is the Chair of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. [3] [4] He is also a member of the American Arbitration Association. [5]
Michael Ira Sovern was the 17th president of Columbia University. Prior to his death, he served as the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He was a noted legal scholar of Labor Law and an expert in employment discrimination.
Paul M. Igasaki was the Chair and Chief Judge of the Administrative Review Board at the U.S. Department of Labor. Previously he was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Equal Justice Works, a national organization that advances public interest law through fellowships, loan repayment programs, pro bono programs, conferences and other methods. Prior to joining Equal Justice Works, he was executive director of the Rights Working Group, a unique nationwide coalition of groups and individuals committed to ensuring liberty and justice for all.
Robert David Sack is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Susan Morrisey Livingstone is a former Acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy in the George W. Bush administration from January–February 2003. She was the first woman to become Secretary of the Navy in U.S. history. Livingstone played a role in the effort to end coercive and abusive interrogation tactics at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At the time, as Under Secretary of the Navy, Livingstone oversaw a large management portfolio, which included lawyers in the Navy General Counsel's office and investigators at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who raised concerns about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Deborah Platt Majoras is the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, appointed May 11, 2004, by President George W. Bush and sworn in on August 16, 2004. President Bush had announced his intention to appoint her to the position on July 30, 2004. Majoras is a member of the Republican Party.
William Horlick Neukom is an American former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants baseball team ownership group. He held this position from May 2008 to December 31, 2011 and he was the managing partner when the Giants won the World Series in 2010, the first World Series win since the team had moved to California in 1958. Prior to holding this position, he was President of the American Bar Association in 2007–08. He was the principal legal counsel for Microsoft for almost 25 years. He was also the Chairman of the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP in Seattle, now part of K&L Gates. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Council on International Policy and spends the majority of his time focused on his role as Co-Founder & CEO of the World Justice Project.
Wayne M. Perry is a retired American businessman and former national president of the Boy Scouts of America (2012–2014).
Douglas M. Steenland is an American former corporate attorney and former airline executive. He had a 17-year career at Northwest Airlines, where he held numerous executive roles, including as president from 2001 through 2008, and president and CEO of Northwest from October 2004 until its merger with Delta Air Lines in October 2008. Since then he has served on a number of boards of directors, and as an advisor to the Blackstone Group.
Beth Nolan is a vice president and general counsel of the George Washington University. She was Bill Clinton's final White House Counsel, as well as the first woman to hold the office. Prior to serving as White House Counicil, Nolan worked in other White House and Department of Justice positions, taught law, and worked in private practice.
Elizabeth Merrill "Lisa" Brown is an American lawyer who served as the first White House Staff Secretary in the Obama White House, assuming that post on January 20, 2009. She is also the current nominee of President Joe Biden to serve as General Counsel at the United States Department of Education. Earlier, during the 2008-2009 presidential transition, she served as Co-Chair of Agency Review. Prior to joining the Obama-Biden Transition Team, she served as Executive Director of the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal organization.
Carol Ann DiBattiste is a United States lawyer who served as United States Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1999 to 2001.
Gilbert F. Casellas is an American lawyer and businessman. He is a private investor and business consultant in the Washington, D.C. area, a director of Prudential Financial, trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, and advisor to Toyota Motor North America, The Procter & Gamble Company, and Comcast Corporation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, trustee of the Pan American Development Foundation and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Workplace Harassment Second Edition 2018 published by Bloomberg Law.
Jonathan R. Alger is an American academic and the current president of James Madison University. Alger became the university’s sixth president on July 1, 2012. Alger is the sixth president since the university’s founding in 1908. He was formally inaugurated on March 15, 2013.
Ida L. Castro is an American attorney and government official who served as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from October 23, 1998, to August 13, 2001.
Chaka M. Patterson is an American attorney. He is currently Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Adtalem Global Education, Inc.. Chaka joined ATGE in June 2018 as Vice President & Deputy General Counsel. He held that position until his promotion to General Counsel in February 2020. Chaka was one of the top fundraisers for US President Barack Obama. He is also a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. He also served on the national finance committee for President Obama's 2012 presidential campaign.
Michael Andrew Fitts is an American legal scholar who is the current president of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at the Tulane School of Law. He is a former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is also the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Harvard Law Journal and other prestigious scholarly publications.
Bradford Lee Smith is an American attorney and technology executive currently serving as vice chairman and president of Microsoft.
Kent Walker currently serves as Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google. He advises Google's board and management on legal and policy issues, its work with governments around the world, its policies for content on its various services, and its philanthropic efforts.
Don H. Liu is a Korean-American lawyer and Chief Legal and Risk Officer of Target Corporation.
Jesse H. Ruiz is an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. He has previously held the positions of deputy governor of Illinois for education, chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education, president of the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners, vice president of the Chicago Board of Education, and interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools.. He currently works in the private sector as chief compliance officer and general counsel to the Vistria Group.