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OBABL POWER 100 The 100 Most Influential Black Attorneys
The Executives
Paula Boggs Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Starbucks
Kenneth Chenault Chairman and CEO American Express Co.
David C. Drummond Chief Legal Counsel Google, Inc.
Thomas E. Evans Vice President & General Counsel-Merchandising, Marketing & Supply Chain Wal-Mart Stores, Inc
Kenneth C. Frazier Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Merck & Co., Inc.
Debra Lee CEO BET Networks
Hinton J. Lucas VP, Assistant General Counsel and Chief Administrative Counsel Dupont
Michele Coleman Mayes Senior Vice President, General Counsel Allstate Insurance Company
Teri P. McClure Senior Vice President of General Counsel and Corporate Secretary UPS Ivy Thomas McKinney Corp. Vice President Deputy General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer Xerox
Clarence Otis Jr. CEO Darden Restaurants
Roderick A. Palmore Executive Vice President; General Counsel Chief Compliance and Risk Management Officer, and Secretary General Mills
Richard D. Parsons Chairman Citigroup Inc.
Kim K.W. Rucker Senior Vice President General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Avon Products, Inc.
The Deans
Dean Linda Ammons Widener Law
Dean Craig M. Boise Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Dean David A. Brennen University of Kentucky College of Law
Dean Christopher Edley, Jr. UC Berkeley School of Law
Joanne Epps Dean Beasley School of Law Temple Law School
Dean Phoebe A. Haddon University of Maryland School of Law
Dean F. Michael Higginbotham University of Baltimore School of Law
Dean Dannye Holley Thurgood Marshall School of Law
2 Dean George R. Johnson Jr Elon University School of Law
Dean Donald M. Lewis Hamline Law School
Dean Veryl V. Miles Columbus School of Law
Blake Morant Dean and Professor of Law Wake Forest University School of Law
Dean Makau W. Mutua SUNY Buffalo Law School
Dean Camille A. Nelson Suffolk University Law School
Dean Mark Niles Seattle University School of Law
Dean LeRoy Pernell Florida A&M
Dean Raymond Pierce NCCU School of Law
Dean Freddie Pitcher Southern University Law Center
Dean Vincent Rougeau Boston College Law School
Dean Kurt Schmoke Howard University School of Law
Dean Denise Spriggs Charlotte School of Law
Dean Athornia Steele The Shepard Broad Law Center
Dean Frederic White Texas Wesleyan University
Dean John Valery White William S. Boyd School of Law
3 The Public Intellectuals
Professor Michelle Alexander The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Professor Devon Carbado UCLA School of Law
Professor Stephen L. Carter Yale Law School
Professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw UCLA School of Law Columbia Law School
Professor Richard Thompson Ford Stanford Law School
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed Harvard Law School
Professor Anita Hill BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Professor Randall L. Kennedy Harvard Law School
Professor Charles J. Ogletree Harvard Law School The Pipeline Builders
Penelope Andrews Chair, AALS Minority Groups Associate Dean and Professor of Law. The City University of New York School of Law
Genhi Givings Bailey Director of Diversity and Inclusion DLA Piper
Leonard M. Baynes Professor of Law and Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. John's University School of Law
Everett Bellamy Charles Hamilton Houston Law Institute Georgetown University Law Center
4 Marcelyn Cox NALP President (2011-2012) Assistant Dean, Career Planning Center University of Miami School of Law
Robert Grey Executive Director Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Partner Hunton & Williams LLP
Maja D. Hazell President, The Association Law Firm Diversity Professionals Director of Diversity and Inclusion Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
E. Christopher Johnson Jr. Associate Professor Director, Graduate Program in Corporate Law and Finance The Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Valerie D. Lewis Secretary and Director The Executive Leadership Council Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary Safeway Inc.
Stacey Mobley Senior Counsel Dickstein Shapiro
Darrell G. Mottley President DC Bar Principal Shareholder Banner & Witcoff LTD
Cassandra Sneed Ogden Executive Director Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO)
Daryl Parks President National Bar Association Managing Partner Parks & Crump, L.L.C.
Laurie Robinson Executive Director, Corporate Counsel Women of Color Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, CBS Corporation
5 The Social Engineers
Kim Keenan General Counsel NAACP National Office
Marc Morial President and CEO National Urban League
Eva Paterson President and Co-Founder Equal Justice Society
John Payton President and Director-Counsel NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Constance “Connie” Rice Co-Director Advancement Project
Veta T. Richardson President and CEO Association of Corporate Counsel
Ralph Smith Executive Vice President The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Joseph K. West President & CEO Minority Corporate Counsel Association
The Plaintiffs Lawyers
Christopher Chestnut Founder and Partner The Chestnut Law Firm
Willie Gary Founder and Partner The Law Firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson and Sperando, P.L.
William Hassan. Murphy III Managing Partner Murphy PA
6 Jock M. Smith (Posthumously) Co-Founder and Partner The Cochran Firm The News Makers
Sam Adam Jr. Partner The Law Offices of Attorney Samuel E. Adam
Billy Hunter Executive Director National Basketball Players Association (NBPA)
David Baker Lewis Shareholder and Director Lewis & Munday PC
Billy Martin Partner Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Rose Sanders Class Counsel – Pigford I Attorney of Record in Pigford II
DeMaurice Smith Executive Director National Football League Players Association
Kenneth P. Thompson Founding Partner Thompson Wigdor LLP The Public Servants
Jacqueline A. Berrien Chair U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Cory A. Booker Mayor City of Newark, NJ
Kamala Harris Attorney General State of California
7 Eric Holder Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice
Valerie B. Jarrett Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama The White House
Jeh C. Johnson General Counsel Department of Defense
The Honorable Ronald K. Noble Secretary General INTERPOL
Deval Patrick Governor The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Craig Watkins District Attorney Dallas County The Law Firm Lions
Sharon R. Barner Partner Foley & Lardner LLP
Sharon Y. Bowen Partner Latham & Watkins
Joe R. Caldwell Chair, Litigation Department Baker Botts
Claudette M. Christian Co-Chair of the Board Hogan Lovells
William E. Cook, Jr. Partner Arnold & Porter LLP
John W. Daniels Jr. Chairman Quarles & Brady LLP
8 Michael D. Jones Partner Kirkland & Ellis LLP
L. Londell McMillan Partner Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Karl Racine Managing Partner Venable LLP
Theodore V. Wells Jr. Partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Benjamin F. Wilson Managing Principal Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. The Cubs (Ten to Watch)
Nick Austin Associate Foley & Lardner LLP
Shaunicie Fielder Editor-in-Chief Harvard Law School Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice Harvard Law School
Jamal Greene Associate Professor of Law Columbia Law School
Lee Harris Associate Professor of Law The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Damon T. Jones General Counsel Washington Nationals
Elie Mystal Editor Above The Law
9 Kelli Newman Co-President Building A Better Legal Profession
Chibundu Nnake NBLSA Chair Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Angela Rye Executive Director and General Counsel Congressional Black Caucus
Damian Williams Associate Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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