Fortune 500 Women General Counsel Fifth Time in Six Years,” Apr. 16, 2007, at 5. MCCA could not confirm the career path www.timeinc.net/fortune/ for three of the new arrivals on the Fortune continued from page 40 information/presscenter/fortune/ 1000 list through published sources. press_releases/20070416_f500.html. 6. See “Fortune 500 2008: Top Performers— Notes 4. As we went to press, MCCA learned that Most Profitable Companies: Profits” at 1. See Geoff Colvin, “Why the Party’s Over,” Ms. Iglesias was no longer associated with money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/ Fortune, May 5, 2008. Nordstrom as of mid-June 2008. She is fortune500/2008/performers/companies/ 2. The term “Fortune 1000” refers to counted as general counsel in this year’s profits/. companies ranked among Fortune’s 501 to survey because she served in that role 7. See Conor Dougherty, “Deborah Siegel, 1000 companies. through 2007, which is the baseline year General Counsel, Guess, Inc.,” in Who’s Who for determination of this year’s Fortune 3. See Colvin, supra note 1; see also in Law, Los Angeles Business Journal, March 3, 500 companies. “Wal-Mart Unseats Exxon Mobil for Top 2003, at http://findarticles.com/ Spot on Fortune 500 List; Ranks No. 1 for p/articles/mi_m5072/is_9_25/ai_98945800/ pg_5. MCCA® 2007 FORTUNE 501–1000 8. “Fortune 500 2008: ConocoPhillips— Women General Counsel COP,” at money.cnn.com/magazines/ fortune/fortune500/2008/snapshots/ By Industry* 327.html. Number Percentage 9. “Fortune 500 2008: Goldman Sachs Group Electronics, Office Equipment (A) 8 10 – GS,” at money.cnn.com/ Insurance: All (B) 4 5 magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/snap- shots/10777.html. Energy, Gas, Petroleum Refining, 10 13 Pipelines, etc. (C) 10. “Blue-Ribbon Companies—Valero En- ergy (10),” at money.cnn.com/ Food & Drug Stores (D) 1 1 galleries/2007/fortune/0712/gallery General Merchandisers, Specialty Retailers 13 17 .blueribbon.fortune/10.html. Wholesalers: Diversified, etc. (E) Financial Services: Diversified Financials, 3 4 Securities, Banks (F) By Race* Transportation & Logistics (G) 2 3 No. % Telecommunications (H) 3 4 Undisclosed 2 2.5 Pharmaceuticals, Medical Products & 4 5 Asian American/ 1 1.2 Equipment, Healthcare (I) Pacific Islander Food Services, Consumer Food Products (J) 4 5 Hispanic 2 2.5 Motor Vehicles (K) 2 3 African American 3 3.8 1 1 Industrial & Farm Equipment (L) Caucasian 70 90 Airlines (M) 0 0 Total 78 100 Real Estate, Hotels & Casino Resorts (N) 4 5 * Percentage of all Fortune 501–1000 Chemicals (O) 3 4 women general counsel Forest & Paper Products (P) 1 1 1.2% Publishing, Printing (Q) 4 5 2.5% 2.5% 3.8% Scientific, Photo Control Equipment (R) 2 3 Railroads (S) 0 0 Mail, Packaging, Freight (T) 0 0 Other (Z) 8 10 90% Totals 77 100 * Percentage of all Fortune 501–1000 Companies with women general counsel

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