Corporate Counsel and InsideCounsel are pleased to announce our honorees for our 2018 National Women in Law Awards. These awards honor general counsel, in-house leaders and law firm partners who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law. These outstanding women will be recognized at an awards dinner on Oct. 3 as part of our Women, Influence & Power in Law Conference in Washington, D.C.
With these awards, we want to spotlight North American women in-house and law firm leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and business acumen as they have guided their organizations through often treacherous roads to achieve success. These women stand out because they are business strategists, complex problem-solvers, and of course, great lawyers. And as important (especially to them) is that they are great people-leaders—they care more about the success of the team than their individual success.
Our Women in Law awards recognize legal department leaders in the following industries: Banking & Finance; Insurance; Transportation & Infrastructure; Manufacturing & Chemicals; Technology, Media & Telecom; and Retail & Consumer Goods. We also are highlighting extraordinary leadership by recognizing female general counsel and law firm partners in the following categories: Innovative Leadership; Thought Leadership; Collaborative Leadership; Transformative Leadership; General Counsel of the Year or Managing Partner of the Year; and Lifetime Achievement.
Congrats to all the amazing women on this list!
In-House Department Honorees
Banking & Finance Category
Sabrina Rusnak-Carlson
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Trish Walsh
Chief Legal Officer
Insurance
Susan L. Lees
Executive VP and General Counsel
Laura Bertus
Senior Corporate Counsel
Transportation & Infrastructure Category
Lisa Ronga
Senior VP and General Counsel
Martha B. Wyrsch
Executive VP and General Counsel
Nada Alnajafi
Senior Corporate Counsel
Manufacturing & Chemicals Category
Sandra Leung
Executive VP and General Counsel
Jennifer Oosterbaan
Senior Counsel
Anna-Lisa Corrales
General Counsel
Jaguar Land Rover North America
Technology, Media & Telecom Category
Kirsten Daru
Chief Privacy Officer
Betsy Dellinger
General Counsel
Naomi Waltman
Senior VP and Associate General Counsel
Retail & Consumer Goods Category
Alexandrea L. Isaac
General Counsel
Tara Hunt de Vries
General Counsel and Executive VP of Human Resources
Alisha Cieslak
Chief Legal and Risk Officer
Innovative Leadership Category
Danielle Sheer
General Counsel
Connie Brenton
Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Legal Operations
NetApp and Corporate Legal Operations Consortium
Nancy Cremins
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
Collaborative Leadership Category
Jennifer McClennan
Head, Strategic Negotiations
Suzette Z. Torres
VP Regional Counsel for the Western Region
Erika Nelson
Senior Commercial Counsel
Thought Leadership Category
LaTanya Langley
VP and General Counsel, Group Stationary, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Anti-Corporation Compliance Officer
Hazel-Ann Mayers
Executive VP and General Counsel
Karyn Smith
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary
Transformative Leadership Category
Stacey Friedman
Executive VP and General Counsel
Lisbeth “Lisa” A. Warren
Assistant General Counsel
Pilar Ramos
General Counsel, North America
Lifetime Achievement Category
Drita Tonuzi
IRS Deputy Chief Counsel
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Joan Humes
VP, Chief Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Function
General Counsel of the Year
Lily Yan Hughes
Senior VP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Law Firm Honorees
Innovative Leadership Category
Miko Brown
Partner
Jami McKeon
Chair
Tessa Schwartz
Firmwide Managing Partner
Kellie Lerner
Partner
Allison Murdock
Deputy Managing Partner
Michele Connell
Office Managing Partner, Cleveland
Francesca Odell
Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Teresa Stricker
Managing Partner
Thought Leadership Category
Cynthia Cole
Special Counsel
Margo Wolf O’Donnell
Partner
Teresa Snider
Partner
Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd
Noiana Marigo
Partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Stephanie DeLong
Partner
Kimberly Rathbone
Partner
Dr. Sara Terheggen
Founder/Managing Director
Collaborative Leadership Category
Ilene W. Berman
Vice Chair
Susan Kohlmann
Managing Partner, New York Office
Nadia Sager
Partner
Melanie Figueroa
Managing Partner, New York Office
Kelsey Mayo
Partner
Andrea Rattner
Partner
Colette D. Honorable
Partner
Transformative Leadership Category
Linda Myers
Partner
Seslee S. Smith
Partner
Anita M. Ventrelli
Senior Partner
Susan W. Murley
Co-Managing Partner
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Therese Pritchard & Lisa Mayhew
Co-Chairs
Valerie E. Radwaner
Deputy Chair
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Paula Hinton
Partner
Managing Partner of the Year
Stasia Kelly
Managing Partner of the Americas
Lifetime Achievement
Jacquelyn E. Stone
Partner
Marie DiSante
Firm Managing Partner
Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger
Roberta “Bobbi” Liebenberg
Senior Partner
Juanita Brooks
Principal
Antonia Stolper
Americas Regional Managing Partner
Joan Hall
Retired Partner
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