OBABL POWER 100 the 100 Most Influential Black Attorneys
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ON BEING 1776 I Street, NW A BLACK Suite 900 LAWYER Washington, DC 20006 T 202.756.1847 F 202.756.1301 www.OBABL.com 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 10.