We are delighted to announce this year’s Power List Honorees, the most influential minority attorneys in the country. Featured on this year’s list are Attorney General Eric Holder, National Urban League President, Marc Morial, and as well as corporate and government general counsel, law school deans, law firm managing partners and practice group heads, and Juan Cartagena who heads the LatinoJustice PRLDEF. The list is comprised of general counsel, law school deans, justice foundation leaders, and law firm managing partners and practice group leaders.
Honorees will be featured in the Power Issue, which will be released February, 24th.
| LAWYERS OF COLOR POWER LIST 2014 | ||
| A.B. Cruz | Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer | Emergent BioSolutions |
| Adeel S. Akhtar | Managing Partner | Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP |
| Alberto de Cardenas | Executive VP, Corporate General Counsel | MasTec |
| Alex Shumate | Managing Partner | Squire Sanders |
| Alfreda Bradley-Coar | General Counsel, US & Canada | GE Healthcare |
| Angel Gonzalez-Roman | Dean | Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Puerto Rico Faculty of Law |
| Anthony A. Joseph | President | Alabama State Bar |
| Arnold Pinkston | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary | Allergan Inc |
| Arthur Chong | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Broadcom Corporation |
| Asheesh Goel | Managing Partner | Ropes & Gray LLP |
| Ava E. Lias-Booker | Office Managing Partner | McGuireWoods LLP |
| Benjamin Wilson | Managing Partner | Beveridge & Diamond |
| Blake D. Morant | Dean and Professor of Law | Wake Forest University School of Law |
| Bradley S. Lui | Managing Partner | Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| Brett Hart | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | United Continental Holdings, Inc. |
| Brian K. Parker | Office Managing Partner | McGuireWoods LLP |
| Camille Nelson | Dean and Professor of Law | Suffolk University Law School |
| Carlos Hernandez | Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary | Fluor Corporation |
| Cesar L. Alvarez | Co-Chairman | Greenberg Traurig |
| Charles Tanabe | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | Liberty Media Corporation |
| Chidi Ogene | Interim Dean | Florida Coastal School of Law |
| Christopher Kao | Palo Alto Managing Partner; Hiring Partner | Perkins Coie LLP |
| Claudette Christian | Co-Chair of the Board | Hogan Lovells |
| Craig M. Boise | Dean & Professor | Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law |
| Damien Atkins | Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Assistant Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer | AOL Inc |
| Dana C. Lumsden | Managing Partner | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP |
| Daniel Rodriguez | Dean; Harold Washington Professor | Northwestern University School of Law |
| Dannye Holley | Dean | Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law |
| David A. Brennen | Dean and Professor of Law | Kentucky, University of, College of Law |
| David Drummond | Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer | Google Inc |
| Don Liu | General Counsel and Secretary | Xerox Corporation |
| Donald M. Lewis | Dean | Hamline University School of Law |
| Douglas Williams | Senior Vice President, General Counsel | Limited Brands |
| Edith Ramirez | Chair | Federal Trade Commission |
| Elisa Garcia | Executive Vice President, General Counsel | Office Depot |
| Elizabeth Moore | SVP General Counsel | Consolidated Edison |
| Enoh Ebong | General Counsel | U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) |
| Eric Holder | Attorney General of the United States | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Ernest LaMont Greer | Vice President; Atlanta Managing Shareholder | Greenberg Traurig |
| Eugene K. Pettis | President | Florida State Bar |
| Frank H. Wu | Chancellor and Dean | California, University of Hastings College of The Law |
| Frank Jimenez | General Counsel | ITT Corporation |
| Freddie Pitcher | Chancellor and Professor of Law | Southern University Law Center |
| Frederick (Fred) B. Rivera | Seattle Office Managing Partner; Firmwide Co-Chair, Financial Services Litigation & Investigations | Perkins Coie LLP |
| Frederick R. Nance | Managing Partner | Squire Sanders |
| George R. Johnson Jr. | Dean, Professor of Law | Elon University School of Law |
| Gilbert Holmes | Dean | La Verne, University of, College of Law |
| Gloria Santona | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | McDonald s Corporation |
| Grace E. Speights | Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. Office | Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP |
| Gregory B. Williams | President | Delaware State Bar Association |
| Gregory Nixon | Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer | CH2M HILL |
| Haseena Enu | Co-Managing Partner | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP |
| Heidi Chen | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | Zoetis |
| Hilary Tompkins | Solicitor | U.S. Department of Interior |
| Hinton J. Lucas | VP, Assistant General Counsel and Chief Administrative Counsel | DuPont |
| Hyun Park | Senior Vice President & General Counsel | PG&E Corporation |
| Indranil Mukerji | Managing Partner | Fish & Richardson P.C. |
| J. Weili Cheng | Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel | The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC |
| Jacqueline A. Berrien | Chair | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) |
| Jacquelyn Bridgeman | Interim Dean and Professor of Law | Wyoming, University of, College of Law |
| James Breedlove | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Praxair Inc |
| James Jenkins | Senior Vice President and General Counsel | Deere & Company |
| James Potter | SVP, General Counsel | Del Monte Foods |
| Janet Murguía | President and CEO | National Council of La Raza (NCLR) |
| Jennifer L. Rosato | Dean and Professor of Law | Northern Illinois University College of Law |
| Jo-Ann Wallace | President and CEO | National Legal Aid and Public Defender Association |
| JoAnne A. Epps | Dean and Professor of Law | Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law |
| John Attaway, Jr. | Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary | Publix Super Markets |
| John Chou | Executive Vice President | AmerisourceBergen Corp. |
| John Daniels | Chairman Emeritus | Quarles & Brady LLP |
| John E. Page | Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Golden State Foods, Corp. |
| John Echohawk | Executive Director | Native American Rights Fund |
| John Kuo | Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. |
| John M. Iino | Managing Partner | Reed Smith LLP |
| John Torres | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary | Lennox International Inc. |
| John Y. Gotanda | Dean and Professor of Law | Villanova University School of Law |
| Joia Johnson | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Hanesbrands Inc. |
| Jonathan Hollingsworth | President | Ohio State Bar Association |
| Joseph K. West | President & CEO | Minority Corporate Counsel Association |
| Juan Cartagena | President and General Counsel | LatinoJustice PRLDEF |
| Juliette Pryor | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer | US Foods |
| Keith Williamson | EVP, Secretary & General Counsel | Centene Corporation |
| Kellye Walker | Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel | American Water Works Company, Inc. |
| Kim Keenan | General Counsel | NAACP National Office |
| Kim Rivera | Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary | DaVita |
| Kim Rucker | Executive Vice President, Corporate and Legal Affairs | Kraft Foods Group, Inc |
| Larry Thompson | Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | PepsiCo |
| Laurie Robinson | Executive Director | Corporate Counsel Women of Color |
| Lawrence Tu | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Office | CBS |
| Leroy Pernell | Dean | Florida A&M Unversity College of Law |
| Leslie T. Thornton | Vice President & General Counsel | Vice President and General Counsel |
| Leticia M. Diaz | Dean and Profesor of Law | Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law |
| Linda L. Ammons | Associate Provost and Dean of the Law School | Widener University-Delaware School of Law |
| Lisa Tatum | President | Texas State Bar |
| Lisa Washington | Chief Legal Officer | Atlas Energy |
| Lucy Lopez | Deputy General Counsel | McKinsey & Company |
| Luis J. Rodriguez | President | State Bar of California |
| Makau W. Mutua | Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor | Buffalo, State Univeristy of New York at Law School (SUNY) |
| Malissa Clinton | Senior Vice President General Counsel | Aerospace Corp |
| Marc Morial | President and CEO | National Urban League |
| Margaret Fung | Executive Director | Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) |
| Maria Pabón López | Dean & Professor of Law | Loyola University-New Orleans College of Law |
| Maria Pasquale | Corporate Vice President Legal and Chief Counsel | Celgene Corporation |
| Mark Darrell | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer | The Laclede Group, Inc. |
| Michael Korniczky | Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Glatfelter |
| Michael Tucker | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | Avis Budget Group Inc. |
| Michael Wu | General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Rosetta Stone |
| Michelle Ifill | Senior Vice President and General Counsel | Verizon Enterprise Solutions |
| Miguel Alexander Pozo | President | National President of the Hispanic National Bar Association |
| Mike Madokoro | Co – Managing Partner | Bowman and Brooke LLP |
| Nadeem Bezar | President | National South Asian American Bar Association |
| Naran Burchinow | Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary | The Andersons, Inc |
| Nicholas Singh | Executive Vice President and serves as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer | Annaly Capital Management, Inc. |
| Nicole Jones | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | Cigna |
| Okianer Christian Dark | Interim Dean and Professor of Law | Howard University School of Law |
| Patricia Rosier | President | National Bar Association |
| Paul Chung | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Targa Resources |
| Paul Harris | Secretary and General Counsel | Key Corporation |
| Paul Tang | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Burlington Coat Factory |
| Paul Williams is a . | Partner & Chicago Managing Partner | Major, Lindsey & Africa |
| Paulette R. Dodson | PetSmart | |
| Penelope Andrews | President & Dean | Albany Law School |
| Phoebe A. Haddon | Dean and Professor of Law | University of Maryland, Frances King Carey School Of Law |
| Phyliss Craig-Taylor | Dean & Professor of Law | North Carolina Central University School of Law |
| Rachel Moran | Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law | California-Los Angeles, University of, School of Law |
| Ram Wertheim | Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer | MBIA Inc. |
| Ramona E. Romero | General Counsel | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Randall R. Lee | Partner-in-Charge | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| Reginald Hedgebeth | General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer | Spectra Energy Corp |
| Rhonda Mims | President SVP, Corporate Responsibility and Multicultural Affairs |
ING Foundation ING |
| Richard C. Lorenzo | Managing Partner | Hogan Lovells |
| Robert Grey | Executive Director | Leadership Council on Legal Diversity |
| Roberto Garcia | Vice President and General Counsel | Triple-S Management Corporation |
| Roderick Palmore | Executive Vice President; General Counsel; Chief Compliance and Risk Management Officer, and Secretary | General Mills, Inc. |
| Ronald Chen | Acting Dean, Distinguished Professor of Law, and Judge Leonard I. Garth Scholar | Rutgers University-Newark School of Law |
| Samrat Khichi | Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary, Chief Administrative Officer | Catalent Pharma Solutions |
| Sandra Leung | General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |
| Scott Taylor | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Symantec Corporation |
| Sharon R. Barner | Vice President, General Counsel | Cummins Inc. |
| Sherrilyn Ifill | President and Director-Counsel | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. |
| Sherry D. Williams | Senior Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance officer | Halliburton |
| Shirley Mays | Dean and Profesor of Law | Arizona Summit Law School |
| Simon Leung | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | Synnex Corporation |
| Simone Wu | Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary | Choice Hotels International, Inc. |
| Stephen Graham | Managing Partner | Fenwick & West LLP |
| Teresa Roseborough | EVP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary | The Home Depot |
| Teresa Sebastian | Senior Vice President General Counsel and Secretary | Darden Inc |
| Teri Plummer-McClure | Senior Vice President of Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | United Parcel Service |
| Thad Florence | General Counsel | Optima Specialty Steel, Inc. |
| Theodore V. Wells Jr. | partner and co-chair of the Litigation Department | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP |
| Tracy Rich | EVP General Counsel/Corporate Secretary | Guardian Life Insurance Company of America |
| Vernon Baker | Senior Vice President & General Counsel | Meritor Inc |
| Veta T. Richardson | President and CEO | Association of Corporate Counsel |
| Vincent D. Rougeau | Dean | Boston College Law School |
| Vivian Neptune | Dean | Puerto Rico, University of, School of Law |
| Wab P. Kadaba | Managing Partner | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP |
| Wally Martinez | Managing Partner | Hunton & Williams LLP |
| Will A. Gunn | General Counsel | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
| William J. Simonitsch | President | National Asian Pacific American Bar Association |
| William M. Carter | Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Professor of Law | University of Pittsburgh School of Law |
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