WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT - 16TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH 11, 2021 - Legal Momentum
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2018 Esha Bandyopadhyay Winston & Strawn LLP • Ashlie Beringer Facebook •
Natasha Innocenti Mlegal Group • The Honorable Michelle K. Lee U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office • Michelle Leetham Rodan + Fields • Sonja Perkins The Perkins
Fund • 2017 Mary A. Francis Chevron Corporation • Susan Marsch Flex, Ltd. •
WOMEN OF
Michele Coleman Mayes The New York Public Library • Mary O’Hara Blue Shield
of California • Jennifer Pileggi Zuora, Inc. • Caren Ulrich Stacy Diversity Lab &
OnRamp Fellowship • 2016 Meena Elliott Aviat Networks, Inc. • Patty Fleischmann
ACHIEVEMENT
StolenYouth • Mary McCutcheon Farella Braun + Martel LLP • Kelly McGinnis Levi
Strauss & Co. • Anne Wojcicki and Kathy Hibbs 23andMe, Inc. • Salle Yoo Uber
Technologies, Inc. • 2015 Connie Collingsworth Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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• Marie Oh Huber Agilent Technologies • The Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of California (retired) • Mary Quazzo Bechtel
Group, Inc. • Emily Ward eBay Inc. • Catherine Zinn DLA Piper LLP • Debra L. Zumwalt
Stanford University • 2014 Adriane Brown Intellectual Ventures • Van Dang Cisco
Systems, Inc • Carrie Dwyer Charles Schwab Corporation • Kerry Francis Deloitte
Financial Advisory Services LLP • Lucy Lee Helm Starbucks • Mary Murphy Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher LLP • Laureen Seeger McKesson Corporation • 2013 Lydia I. Beebe
Chevron Corporation • Bavan Holloway The Boeing Company • Karen M. King
Silver Lake • Drucilla Ramey Golden Gate University School of Law • Judith Joan
Sullivan Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C. • 2012 Michelle Banks Gap Inc. • Shelley Doran
Webcor Builders • Carol C. Lam Qualcomm Incorporated • Diane Winokur ALS
Treatment & Research Center, UCSF Packard Center, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine • 2011 John Chiang State of California • Kelly Dermody Lieff,
Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP • Hilary Krane NIKE, Inc. • Kavita Ramdas Global
Fund for Women • Loretta Walker AT&T California • 2010 Leona M. Bridges Barclays
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PROTECTING WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ RIGHTS BEGINS WITH THE LAW
Legal Momentum Congratulates Our 2021 Women of Achievement Honorees The Honorable Rosemarie Aquilina Public Service Honoree Julia Collins Catharina Min Phuong Phillips Sarita Venkat Matthew Fawcett Man of Distinction
About Us Legal Momentum, originally honoring the inextricable links to courts makes us a leading agent founded as the NOW Legal racial justice, and thus achieving of change in the ongoing pursuit Defense and Education Fund, equality for all. of gender equality in the courts is the country’s first and longest and in our society. serving legal advocacy We utilize four main strategies– organization for women and litigation, education, advocacy, girls. With five decades of and defense –to ensure women experience safeguarding the and girls are equally protected rights of women and girls under the law. Our expertise through landmark legislation addressing gender-based and high-impact litigation, violence, human trafficking, we maintain the unwavering workplace equality, educational commitment to gender equity, opportunity, and fairness in the 4 Women of Achievement
Legal Momentum warmly thanks the following for their generous support of the Sixteenth Annual
Women of Achievement Awards.
IMPACT INVESTOR Jan Kang
Covington & Burling LLP Karen King
Michelle Leetham
Uber
Levi & Strauss Co
UNWAVERING INVESTOR Kerry J. McLean
Apple Kathleen O’Sullivan
Baker Botts LLP Planet FWD
Chevron Corporation Peter and Sheila Strand
Robert Kaufman Charitable Fund
Macrae, Inc. Women At Zynga
NetApp
FRIEND INVESTOR
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
PayPal, Inc.
Liam Brown
Sonja Hoel Perkins
John Collins
TM Financial Forensics, LLC
Sara Collins
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Kerry Francis
CHAMPION INVESTOR Guillot Wilson Family Fund
Karen Silverman Tom Larkins
White & Case LLP Bonnie Lau
Jennifer Pileggi
LEGAL INVESTOR
Schyleen Qualls
Baker & McKenzie LLP
William Tulin
Michelle Banks
Charles and Cheryl Ward
Meena Elliott
Seth Weissman
*List as of March 8, 2021
5 Women of AchievementMANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Benefit Committee Esha Bandyopadhyay Mary McCutcheon Fish & Richardson PC Farella Braun + Martel LLP Michelle Banks Kathleen O’Sullivan Gap, Inc. Perkins Coie LLP Betty Chen Sonja Hoel Perkins Fish & Richardson PC Broadway Angels Meena Elliott Jennifer Pileggi WGCN Advisory Council Zuora, Inc. Kerry Francis Stephanie A. Sheridan Deloitte Steptoe & Johnson LLP Mary A. Francis Karen E. Silverman Chevron Corporation The Cantellus Group Natasha Innocenti Tony West Macrae, Inc. Uber Jan Kang Laura A. Wilkinson Women’s General Counsel Network Paypal Inc. Karen King Loria B. Yeadon Silver Lake YMCA of Greater Seattle Michelle Leetham Catherine Zinn Rodan + Fields (Retired) Baker Botts LLP Susan Marsch Former Tech Executive/General Counsel 6 Women of Achievement
16th Annual Women of Achievement Awards
PROGRAM
Legal Momentum Board Chair – Eileen Simon
Emcee – Michelle Leetham
Legal Momentum President and
CEO – Carol Baldwin Moody
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
Isabella Min Fish and Sydney Min Fish to Catharina Min
Dee Poku to Julia Collins
Noreen Krall to Sarita Venkat
Lynn Hecht Schafran to The Honorable
Rosemarie Aquilina
Legal Momentum 50th Anniversary Equality Series
Presents: A Conversation with Judge Rosemarie Aquilina
and Lynn Hecht Schafran, Legal Director and Director,
National Judicial Education Program, Legal Momentum
Susan Eandi to Phuong Phillips
Connie Brenton to Matthew Fawcett
CLOSING REMARKS
7 Women of AchievementLetter from
The President and CEO
Congratulations to our 2021 Women 1990 — Drafted Violence Against
of Achievement Honorees! Women Act (VAWA) with then-
Senator Biden
Thank you for joining us at the 16th 2000 — 9/11 Equality Works Project
Annual Women of Achievement launched; 2004 - NOW LDEF
Awards where we showcase and rebrands as Legal Momentum
celebrate the accomplishments of
2010 — Effected changes in
our honorees.
legislation to combat technology-
drive domestic and sexual violence
By publicly recognizing and
awarding our 2021 honorees for their 2020 — Women Valued Initiative
extraordinary accomplishments, expanded to focus on gender
differences exacerbated by oppression against both women and
Legal Momentum sends a powerful
the pandemic people of color.
message to all women and girls that
nothing is beyond their reach.
During this unprecedented time Your support of the Women of
in our country, Legal Momentum Achievement Awards helps Legal
Legal Momentum also celebrates its
stepped up to the COVID-19 Momentum to fulfill its mission to
50th Anniversary! With five decades
challenge and swiftly developed protect the economic and physical
of experience safeguarding the
and disseminated powerful security of women and girls.
rights of women and girls through
resources to help the most
landmark legislation and high-
vulnerable women of the pandemic
impact litigation, we maintain the
as well as all the women and girls in
unwavering commitment to gender
our nation. We are focused and
equity, honoring the inextricable
committed to changing the culture
links to racial justice, and thus
of inequality that still exists in the
achieving equality for all. Carol Baldwin Moody
United States.
President and CEO
1970 — Founded in 1970 as NOW
Legal Momemtum
LDEF; Title VII and Title IX litigation Also, at Legal Momentum, we
recognize that the fight for gender
1980 — National Judicial Education
equality is also a fight for racial
Program (NJEP) to Promote Equality
justice. In our work, we have fought
for Women and Men in the Courts
to confront the social systems that
was founded
are responsible for the systemic
8 Women of AchievementNational Judicial
Education Program
Gender justice is powerfully addressed task forces’ efforts to eradicate gender
by Legal Momentum’s National Judicial bias in the courts, task forces established
Education Program (NJEP) which explores by state supreme courts in response to
how gender bias can undermine fairness NJEP’s judicial education programs.
in criminal, civil, family, juvenile, and
problem-solving courts. Formally Once off the ground, NJEP combined
established in 1980 in cooperation legal, statistical, social science and
with the National Association of Women anecdotal data to convey to judges
Judges, NJEP was a project long in the the ways in which their own, often
making. Knowledgeable judges, lawyers, unconscious, biases interfere with the
and journalists acknowledged the need genuine impartiality for which judges
for judicial education about gender bias, strive. The courses developed and offered
but warned that the judiciary would never by NJEP provided judges the opportunity
to listen and understand how deeply violence does not harm children, so
believe there was gender bias in their
rooted gender bias is, and measure their long as the children were not themselves
own courts or accept it as a legitimate
responses against those of their peers on physically or sexually assaulted. NJEP’s
topic for education. Potential funders
issues which they had rarely - if ever - article, Domestic Violence, Developing
insisted there was no need for such a
discussed with one another. Brains and the Lifespan: New Knowledge
program because judges are impartial,
from Neuroscience, published in The
per their job descriptions. Many failed to
In addition to pioneering judicial Judges’ Journal, explains the profound
understand that in addition to overt bias
education about gender bias, NJEP fallacy of that belief and has been
and what we now call “implicit bias,” a
pioneered judicial education about widely reprinted.
major aspect of gender bias in the courts
relevant neuroscience. In 2000, NJEP
is lack of accurate, factual knowledge
added a unit on the neurobiology of Although putting gender bias on the
about the social and economic realities
trauma to its Understanding Sexual judicial education agenda has not been
of women’s and men’s lives.
Violence curriculum. This unit helps easy, the positive responses to NJEP --
judges understand victims’ so-called evident in judicial decisions, course
The founding of the NOW Legal
counterintuitive behaviors, including evaluations, letters of thanks, and “return
Defense and Education Fund, now Legal
fear-induced states of paralysis called engagements” to speak and teach in
Momentum, offered a unique opportunity
“tonic” and “collapsed” immobility, and several states – demonstrate that judges
for NJEP to cement itself in the fight for
the extreme passivity of dissociation. A are receptive to the combination of law,
gender justice. In the decades since,
major problem in domestic violence social science, and neuroscience that
NJEP has taken the topic of gender bias
cases is the mistaken belief among judges NJEP explores with them. One of the most
from virtual obscurity to broad-based
and those upon whom they rely for expert gratifying of these course evaluations
recognition by way of education,
advice that exposure to domestic read, “I didn’t know what I didn’t know.”
publications, and supporting high level
9 Women of AchievementWomen Valued
Initiative
Legal Momentum’s newest program, the York, including low-income, immigrant
Women Valued Initiative (WVI), founded women and women working in
in 2017, aims to educate, empower, and high-risk industries.
elevate all women with a focus on the most
vulnerable women. Committed to ensuring The Working Woman’s Bill of Rights is
women are informed of their rights and have an unprecedented intersectional and
access to stronger legal protections, Women comprehensive legislative agenda for
Valued addresses the problematic and women’s economic equality that covers
chronic reality that women continue to be the Initiative’s 13 core issues. Serving as a
undervalued in our economy. This initiative comprehensive framework for long-term
has published critical resources, including a advocacy, the Bill of Rights intends to
Legal Toolkit for Women’s Economic Equality strengthen and expand our laws at the
(with an initial focus on New York State), national, state, and local levels to achieve
which provides guidance to advocates and workplace equality.
women; and the Working Woman’s Bill of
Rights, which serves as a national policy The Women Valued Initiative team drafts
advocacy agenda. Spearheading targeted and advocates for legislation and regularly
submits testimony and public comments pay and sexual harassment claims against
policy and legislative advocacy this initiative
regarding policies, regulations, and laws that high profile national employers, enabling
drafts innovative new legislation and
would impact women in the workplace. women to represent themselves to their
submitting testimony and public comment
Recent submissions include: an Urgent employers and seeking justice for domestic
at the national, state, and local levels. In
Reform Agenda to the Biden-Harris violence victims.
addition, the nationwide SYMS | Legal
Momentum Helpline, which receives calls administration to correct executive and
from all 50 states, provides women and girls administrative actions that were harmful to WVI’s 13 Core Issues
with earliest stage legal information and gender and racial equality, testimony on pay
Sex and Gender Reproductive and
support in the face of inequality and gender equity and pregnancy discrimination to the Discrimination Maternal Health
discrimination and serves as an integral part New York City Commission on Human Rights,
Pregnancy, Childbirth,
and international comments to the United Sexual Harassment
of this powerful initiative. and Breastfeeding
Nations on trafficking of women and girls.
Equal Pay Paid Family Leave
The Women Valued Legal Toolkit provides
accessible guidance to advocates and The SYMS | Legal Momentum Helpline Child Care Assistance
Minimum Wage and
assists women and girls nationwide to fight and Protections for
women on a comprehensive range of Fair Wage Practices
Caregivers
workplace protections, benefits, and inequality and gender discrimination,
tackling problems like pay inequality, Economic
resources to advance women’s economic Public Benefits
Opportunity
security in New York State. The Toolkit sexual harassment, and domestic violence.
A Safe Workplace
encompasses the Initiative’s 13 core issues Examples of the Helpline’s impact include and Fair Working Collective Action
and includes targeted guidance to uplift representing clients bringing gender Conditions
some of the most vulnerable women in New discrimination claims against their Workplace Protections for Survivors of
employers, winning settlements in equal Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
10 Women of AchievementRights Now!
Legal Momentum’s Rights Now! • Social media and cyber abuse
program empowers youth, particularly
• Civil rights law such a Title IX, the
young women of color, to identify and
Dignity for All Students Act, and laws
respond to sexual abuse, violence,
and procedures governing orders of
and sex-based discrimination. This
Protection
empowerment program is dedicated
to centering the experiences, The Rights Now! Workshop
expertise, and leadership among
Curriculum comprises five workshops
youth through a 15-week Peer
Educator training program on the presented by the trained Peer
Rights Now! curriculum followed by a Educators to their peers as
set of workshops led by these trained individual workshops or as a series:
educators for groups of their peers
across NYC’s five boroughs. Rights • Workshop 1: Power, Privilege,
Now! is generously funded by the NYC Oppression • CAMBA Collegiate Express
Council’s Young Women’s Initiative and • Center for Anti-Violence Education
looks forward to serving other youth • Workshop 2: Gender Based
nationwide. The Rights Now! Peer Discrimination • Covenant House
Educator Empowerment Program • Workshop 3: Healthy Relationships • Dreams Youth Build
trains young leaders in the recognition and Teen Dating Violence
of, resistance to, and optimized • Harlem Educational Activities
responses to sexual abuse, violence, • Workshop 4: Social Media and Cyber Fund, Inc.
and gender-based discrimination. Abuse
• New York Public Interest Research
Peer educators are selected to • Workshop 5: Know Your Rights Group at Hunter College
participate and are financially
compensated, thereby benefiting from At each workshop, Legal • PowerPlay NYC
the innovative professional and Momentum’s Peer Educators and • Voces Latinas of Queens
personal development this training staff work together to empower and
and subsequent workshops provide. • Women for Afghan Women
educate young women about the
Designed as a “living” program, its • YouthBridge Summit
participants help develop and shape issues on which Legal Momentum has
every aspect—from the workshop worked for decades. These impactful
curriculum to their own training, which workshops have been offered
includes topics such as: throughout NYC at leading
• Power, privilege, and oppression organizations, including but not
limited to:
• Healthy relationships and teen
dating violence • Bella Abzug Leadership Institute
• Sex and gender-based • Brooklyn STEAM Center
discrimination
11 Women of AchievementMichelle Leetham Rodan + Fields (retired) 2018 Women of Achievement Honoree Emcee After more than 30 years as Corporation, where she led the a strategic business and legal effort to develop Alternative advisor with expertise in Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) compliance, dispute resolution, Programs. Michelle has been product claims, and corporate a regular contributor to bar governance, Michelle retired in association and other legal late 2019 from her role as Rodan group efforts to promote the use + Fields’ Chief Legal Officer & of ADR in both domestic and Secretary. Since then, she has international venues. She has focused on growing tomatoes, taught courses on Mediation at as well as various political U.C. Berkeley School of Law and campaigns and philanthropic has served as an Advisor to the endeavors. Before joining Rodan American Law Institute project to + Fields, Michelle served as Vice develop a Restatement of the President, Chief Ethics and U.S. Law of International Compliance Officer and Chief Commercial Arbitration. Michelle Litigation Counsel at First Solar, is a former Board Member of the where she developed policies Direct Selling Association and and training programs to ensure the California Employment Law compliance with a broad array Council and a former member of of ethical and regulatory the Legal Executive Committee requirements. Prior to that, of the Personal Care Michelle was the Of Counsel for Products Councill. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart, and was also the Michelle holds a BA in Rhetoric Vice President, Principal Counsel from UC Berkeley and a JD from and Manager of Global the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Litigation for the Bechtel 12 Women of Achievement
Eileen Simon
Chair, Board of Directors
Legal Momentum
As General Auditor of Mastercard, customers to optimize their performance
Ms. Simon is responsible for providing while minimizing risk to the system. She
independent and objective assurance also managed the evolution and
on the design and effectiveness of the automation of the company’s licensing
Company’s risk management, internal and registration processes, rules and
controls and governance processes. She standards and led efforts to revamp the
is accountable to the Audit Committee of Mastercard compliance and dispute
the Board of Directors and works closely resolution programs.
with Mastercard’s independent auditor.
Earlier, Ms. Simon managed the
Ms. Simon also sits on the Company’s defense of complex commercial litigation Westchester, and on the Board of
Risk Management Committee and is a for Mastercard. She also supervised Directors of the Westchester/Fairfield
member of its Global Diversity and investigations of fraud and misconduct, Chapter of the Association of Corporate
Inclusion Council. She also serves as oversaw management of the compliance Counsel, where she co-chaired its
the executive sponsor of the Mastercard function and helped develop and Antitrust and Trade Regulation
global Women’s Leadership Network. support Enterprise Risk Management Committee. She was also a member of
at Mastercard. the Executive Committee of the New York
In her previous role as general counsel, State Bar Association Antitrust Section,
Global Businesses, she was responsible for Before joining Mastercard in June of and was named a “Super Lawyer” in 2007.
ensuring the legal connectivity among 1999, Ms. Simon practiced law at Weil,
the Products & Innovation, Services and Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York City, Ms. Simon graduated from the
Marketing & Communications where she concentrated in antitrust law University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor
organizations, as well as Operations & and litigation. of Science degree in Economics summa
Technology (O&T) and Mastercard cum laude from the Wharton School and
Strategic Growth. She also had Ms. Simon is Chair of the Board of a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum
responsibility for legal support of mergers Directors of Legal Momentum. She is a laude in Psychology from the College of
and acquisitions, and the Franchise, recipient of the 2015 Legal Momentum Arts and Sciences. She was elected to Phi
Compliance and Public “Aiming High” award. Previously, Ms. Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from
Policy functions. Simon was President of the Board of New York University School of Law, where
Directors of the YWCA White Plains and she was elected to Order of Barristers and
Prior to that, Ms. Simon led franchise Central Westchester and remains a served on the Executive Board of Moot
functions that protect the integrity of the director. In addition, she served on the Court. Ms. Simon is admitted to practice
network and brand by enabling Women’s Executive Society of law in New York and Connecticut.
13 Women of AchievementCarol Baldwin Moody
President and Chief Executive Officer
Legal Momentum
Carol Baldwin Moody serves Board of the New York Chapter of
as President and CEO of Legal INROADS, working to help businesses
Momentum®, The Women’s Legal gain greater access to diverse talent.
Defense and Education Fund. Carol
assumed this role in April 2018 after In addition to receiving numerous
serving on the Legal Momentum Board awards for her advocacy work, Carol is
for two years and receiving its Aiming widely recognized for her broad
High Award in 2011. regulatory experience, domestically
and internationally. With a strong focus
Carol has developed a reputation on organizational culture, her
for her outstanding efforts to fight for specialties include expertise in global Insurance Company of NY,
equality. Her work specifically focuses risk management, regulatory Grasshopper Bank, N.A. and
on educational, economic and compliance, and corporate Germantown Friends School. Her
gender equality. Known as a tireless governance. In 2010, Black Enterprise professional associations include the
mentor and advocate for diversity for named Carol as one of the 75 most Executive Leadership Council and the
decades, Carol has taken on many powerful women in business. In honor Council on Foreign Relations. Carol
roles to serve the community. For the of her work and influence on diversity, holds a JD from Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania, she served Nationwide Insurance African American School of Law and a BSE from the
on the Minority Permanence Women’s ARG established the Carol Wharton School.
Committee, which celebrated the Baldwin Moody Impact Award. Carol
25th anniversary of its launch of the moved to full-time service in the public
Brister Society of the University of sector in 2011, taking on the role of
Pennsylvania in 2018. Brister members, acting Chief Operating Investment
by power of example, support and Officer for CalPERS, the nation’s largest
promote the University’s efforts to public pension fund with a fair value of
attract, encourage and maintain a investments of over 300 billion dollars.
culturally diverse community. Carol She was honored for her work
served on the advisory board of the overseeing all business operations
Toigo Foundation, an organization and her work on diversity in the
whose mission is to foster the career Investment Office.
advancement and increased
leadership of underrepresented talent, Carol sits on several other Boards
and she held a prominent seat on the that include Security Mutual Life
14 Women of AchievementThe Honorable Rosemarie Aquilina 30th Circuit Court Judge at Ingham County, Michigan Public Service Honoree Judge Rosemarie Aquilina earned Judge in the 55th District Court, and her Juris Doctorate degree from she founded the Ingham County Western Michigan Thomas M. Cooley Sobriety Court Foundation to assist Law School in 1984 after earning her those in recovery. Judge Aquilina Bachelor of Arts Degree from was then elected to the 30th Circuit Michigan State University in 1979. She Court for Ingham County, where she began her legal career working in has served for twelve years, recently the Michigan Senate as an being elected to another 6-year Administrative Assistant after which, term. Judge Aquilina is an Adjunct part of the First Originals from Reese she opened Aquilina Law Firm, PLC. Law Professor and has received Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine. Judge Aquilina became part of exceptional teaching awards at Represented by Creative Artists Michigan’s history as the first female both Western Michigan Thomas M. Agency, Judge Aquilina is a JAG Officer in the Michigan Army Cooley Law School and Michigan motivational speaker who speaks National Guard retiring honorably State University College of Law. The worldwide about awareness and after twenty years. Judge Aquilina law courses she teaches includes: changing the narrative to ensure also made history when she allowed Civil Trial Practice, Criminal Trial safety, voice, equity, and equality for 156 Sister-Survivors and other victims Practice, Criminal Law, Criminal all persons. She is committed to for a total of 169 victims to speak Procedure, Family Law, Family Law ending sexual assault, domestic over seven days in the People v Trial Skills, Animal Law, Elder Law, violence, child abuse, and human Nassar case. She, again made Military Law, Child Abuse And trafficking and being part of the history as the first female professor to Neglect, Defending Battered movement around the world for speak at the MSU College of Law Women, and Legislative Process. athlete safety over money and Commencement in the Spring of Additionally, Judge Aquilina is a medals. She has five children and 2018 and in 2020 hearing the first published fiction author. Judge three grandchildren and resides in hybrid jury trial during Covid-19. Aquilina, is an author of fiction, her East Lansing, Michigan. Judge Aquilina has served as a novels include Feel No Evil, Triple civilian judge for sixteen years. Cross Killer, and All Rise. Her memoir, During her first four years, she served Just Watch Me, will be released as Chief Judge and Sobriety Court December 10, 2020 by Audible as 15 Women of Achievement
Julia Collins Founder and Chief Executive Officer Planet FWD Julia Collins is a serial entrepreneur who realized food was her calling as a young girl in San Francisco where it was the epicenter of her community. She’s spent her career building food companies, having launched brands such as Mexicue, Murray’s Cheese Bar and Harlem Jazz Enterprises, the company responsible for the award- winning restaurant, The Cecil. She later went on to co-found Zume Pizza where she became the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company. When she became a mother, she knew she needed to find a way to bring delicious food to people in a way that helped heal the planet for everyone including her son. Today, Julia leads Planet FWD, a company on a mission to tackle climate change by making it easier to bring climate-friendly products to market. The company is building a software platform for regenerative agriculture alongside a climate-friendly snack brand, Moonshot. In addition, Julia sits on the advisory council for Launch with GS, serves on the All Raise operating committee and is an EIR for Cleo Capital. She is an active angel investor focused on funding female entrepreneurs and BIPOC founders. 16 Women of Achievement
Catharina Min Partner Covington & Burling LLP Catharina Min represents both U.S. and international clients in mergers and acquisitions, private financings, joint ventures, strategic alliances, corporate partnering, securities offerings, and other corporate transactions. She also represents emerging companies in general corporate matters and venture capital financings. In addition, Ms. Min has extensive experience representing Asian clients doing business in the United States. Ms. Min is a frequent speaker at many organizations, including the Practising Law Institute, Association of Corporate Counsel, SV Forum, the Korean IT Network, and a number of Korean incubators covering topics related to cross-border transactions and venture capital financings. She also regularly shares her insights at events for California Women Lawyers, Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Asian Business League, and others on mentoring and advancement of women and minority lawyers. 17 Women of Achievement
Phuong Phillips
Chief Legal Officer
Zynga
Phuong Phillips is Chief Legal Program (2019), the Trailblazer
Officer for Zynga, overseeing all Award from the Vietnamese
legal affairs and government American Bar Association of
relations for the company. Prior to Northern California (2019),
joining Zynga, Phillips served as named one of the Top 100 Legal
Associate General Counsel for Influencers by The Business Journal
Tesla, Inc. and was the lead M&A (2019), the In-House Outstanding
attorney. Before that, Phillips spent Individual Contribution Award at
more than six years at SolarCity as the North American Chambers
Administration from the University
its Vice President, Deputy General Diversity & Inclusion Awards (2020)
of California, Los Angeles, and her
Counsel and Head of Corporate as well as honored with GC of the
J.D. from UCLA School of Law.
and Securities. Year from the Women, Influence &
Power in Law (2020).
Before joining SolarCity, Phillips
spent more than seven years as a Phillips serves as the Executive
Corporate Attorney at Wilson Chair of Women at Zynga, an
Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. employee-led resource group
offering a variety of programming
Phillips was honored by the for women in gaming, as well as on
Silicon Valley Business Journal with the Board of the California Minority
a Women of Influence Award Counsel Program, The Law
(2015) and the Recorder with a Foundation of Silicon Valley,
Women Leaders in Tech Law Project Glimmer and Director
Award (2018). Most recently, Phillips of Operations for the
was honored with a Bay Area Straubel Foundation.
Corporate Counsel – Diversity
Award (2019), the In-House Phillips received her bachelor’s
Counsel Diversity Award by the degree in Communication Studies
California Minority Counsel with a specialization in Business
18 Women of AchievementSarita Venkat
Head of IP Transactions
Apple
Sarita Venkat is the Head of IP the South Asian Bar Association.
Transactions at Apple Inc. She She is admitted to practice in
previously managed complex, Illinois, California, and the U.S.
high profile patent and Patent and Trademark Office.
commercial litigations
worldwide at Apple. Sarita is the co-creator of the
Heels of Justice podcast along
She has also held in-house with Katherine Minarik, which
positions at ServiceNow and celebrates trailblazing women in
Abbott Laboratories Inc. law. She is supported by her
managing transactions and better half, Balaji Venkat, and
litigation. She is a registered her two boys, all of whom are
patent attorney, has a B.S. in champions of gender equality.
Biology and a minor in
Psychology. She is a Board
member of ChIPs, a non-profit
organization dedicated to the
advancement of women in
technology, law, and policy. She
previously served as a board
member for South Asian Bar
Association – Northern California.
She has been named one of
Silicon Valley Business Journal’s
Women of Influence, Recorder’s
Women Leaders in Tech Law, a
Corporate IP Star by Managing
IP and has been presented with
the Corporate Counsel award by
19 Women of AchievementMatthew Fawcett Chief Strategy and Legal Officer NetApp Man of Distinction Matthew Fawcett is NetApp’s Chief Strategy and Legal Officer, leading corporate strategy and development, government relations and the worldwide legal team, and serves as corporate secretary. He and his organization are routinely recognized for leadership at the intersection of innovation, technology, and law. Throughout his career, Matt has advised leading technology companies on a variety of issues, including mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, and litigation. Prior to joining NetApp, Matt served as the senior vice president and general counsel of JDS Uniphase Corporation and in private practice before that. Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from UCLA. 20 Women of Achievement
16th Anniversary
Women of
Achievement Awards Dinner
Honorees 2006 to 2020
2020 Betty Chen Principal, Fish & Richardson, P.C. • Kristen Go Managing
Editor/News, USA Today • Connie M. Leyva California Senator •
Kathleen M. O’Sullivan Firmwide Chair, Litigation Practice, Perkins Coie
LLP • Analea Patterson Chief Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary, California
Governor Gavin Newsom • Tony West Chief Legal Officer, Uber • 2019
Aimee Allison President, Democracy in Color, Founder, She the People •
Julie Gruber EVP, Global General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief
Compliance Officer, Gap Inc. • Jan Kang Chief Legal Officer, Chronicle
LLC and founder Women’s General Counsel Network • Cassandra Knight
Vice President & Chief Litigation Counsel, PayPal, Inc. • Mansi H. Shah
21 Women of AchievementPartner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP • Julie Wainwright Founder
and CEO, The RealReal • 2018 Esha Bandyopadhyay Winston & Strawn
LLP • Ashlie Beringer Facebook • Natasha Innocenti Mlegal Group • The
Honorable Michelle K. Lee U.S. Patent and Trademark Office • Michelle
Leetham Rodan + Fields • Sonja Perkins The Perkins Fund • 2017 Mary A.
Francis Chevron Corporation • Susan Marsch Flex, Ltd. • Michele Coleman
Mayes The New York Public Library • Mary O’Hara Blue Shield of California
• Jennifer Pileggi Zuora, Inc. • Caren Ulrich Stacy Diversity Lab & OnRamp
Fellowship • 2016 Meena Elliott Aviat Networks, Inc. • Patty Fleischmann
StolenYouth • Mary McCutcheon Farella Braun + Martel LLP • Kelly
McGinnis Levi Strauss & Co. • Anne Wojcicki and Kathy Hibbs 23andMe,
Inc. • Salle Yoo Uber Technologies, Inc. • 2015 Connie Collingsworth Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation • Marie Oh Huber Agilent Technologies • The
Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California (retired) • Mary Quazzo Bechtel Group, Inc. • Emily Ward eBay
Inc. • Catherine Zinn DLA Piper LLP • Debra L. Zumwalt Stanford University
• 2014 Adriane Brown Intellectual Ventures • Van Dang Cisco Systems,
Inc • Carrie Dwyer Charles Schwab Corporation • Kerry Francis Deloitte
Financial Advisory Services LLP • Lucy Lee Helm Starbucks • Mary Murphy
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP • Laureen Seeger McKesson Corporation •
2013 Lydia I. Beebe Chevron Corporation • Bavan Holloway The Boeing
Company • Karen M. King Silver Lake • Drucilla Ramey Golden Gate
University School of Law • Judith Joan Sullivan Anderson Kill & Olick,
P.C. • 2012 Michelle Banks Gap Inc. • Shelley Doran Webcor Builders •
Carol C. Lam Qualcomm Incorporated • Diane Winokur ALS Treatment
& Research Center, UCSF Packard Center, The Johns Hopkins University
22 Women of AchievementSchool of Medicine • 2011 John Chiang State of California • Kelly
Dermody Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP • Hilary Krane NIKE, Inc.
• Kavita Ramdas Global Fund for Women • Loretta Walker AT&T California
• 2010 Leona M. Bridges Barclays Global Investors (Retired 2009) • Julia
T. Brown Charles Schwab Bank • Nancy McFadden PG&E Corporation •
Therese M. Stewart City & County of San Francisco • Roselyne Chroman
Swig Community Activist • 2009 Heather J. Fong San Francisco Police
Department • Mary Huss San Francisco Business Times • Lynn M. Sedway
CB Richard Ellis • 2008 Katherine August-de Wilde First Republic Bank
• Anne W. Halsted San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission • Katherine Lutton Fish & Richardson, P.C. • Laura Stein The
Clorox Company • Catherine A. Yanni, Esq. JAMS • 2007 Mary B. Cranston
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP • Evelyn Dilsaver Charles Schwab
Investment Management • Joanne Hayes-White San Francisco Fire
Department Chief • Myrtle Potter Real Estate Developer • 2006 Elizabeth
J. Cabraser Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP • The Honorable
Kamala D. Harris San Francisco District Attorney • Lauri M. Shanahan
Gap Inc. • Brenda Wright Wells Fargo
23 Women of AchievementWe Are Not Neutral.
Baker McKenzie strives to be a community where everyone can reach their
full potential, where differences are celebrated.
#WeAreNotNeutral
Congratulations to Phuong Phillips and all of the winners.
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24 Women of AchievementElevate &
celebrate
White & Case congratulates
Phuong Phillips, Chief Legal Officer
at Zynga, on her exceptional
accomplishments and recognition
as a champion of women’s rights.
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25 Women of AchievementAccess to Justice
We are committed to not only fostering diversity
& inclusion but also to ensuring access to justice
for all individuals in the communities we serve.
We collectively benefit from a diverse and
inclusive workforce that comprises individuals
from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences
and values. And we also strive to assist those in
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On behalf of Baker Botts, congratulations to
the winners of the 16th Annual Women of
Achievement Awards.
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LEGAL
MOMENTUM
ROCKS!
Congratulations to
Phuong Phillips Matthew Fawcett
Chief Legal Officer, Zynga Senior Vice President,
Chief Strategy and Legal Officer,
Sarita Venkat and Secretary, NetApp
Head of Global IP Transactions,
Apple Inc.
and all of tonight’s honorees.
2020 Thomas L. Sager Award
– Minority Corporate Counsel Association
AMERICAS | EUROPE | ASIA orrick.com
28 Women of AchievementPayPal is committed to cultivating a culture
of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging –
for our global employees, the customers
and communities we serve, and as a leader
of the digital payment revolution.
PayPal is proud to support Legal Momentum
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We are proud to support
and congratulate
and all the honorees
31 Women of Achievement32 Women of Achievement
Congratulations
Matt Fawcett, recipient
of the 2021 Man of
Distinction Award
You are a shining
example for leaders
around the world
All our gratitude to Legal
Momentum. We support,
respect and honor what you
do so well.
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Legal Momentum
and congratulates our partner, Catharina Min,
a Women of Achievement Honoree.
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THANK YOU TO OUR 16TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
AWARDS SUPPORTERS!
THANK YOU TO OUR 16TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
AWARDS SUPPORTERS!
36 Women of AchievementBoard of Directors
Eileen Simon Amy Leder Kim Gandy
Chair Secretary Network to End Domestic Violence
Mastercard Holland & Knight LLP (Past President & CEO)
Meena L. Elliott Susan B. Lindenauer Mary Gail Gearns
First Vice Chair
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (retired)
Treasurer
WGCN Advisory Council The Legal Aid Society (retired) Vilia B. Hayes
Robert M. Kaufman Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
G. Elaine Wood
Vice Chair General Counsel Lori B. Leskin
Proskauer Rose LLP Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Charles River Associates
Amy Dorn Kopelan Nancy B. Saltzman
Carol A. Baldwin Moody Logicalis, Inc.
Vice Chair
President and CEO
Bedlam Productions Inc. Legal Momentum Stephanie A. Sheridan
Jay W. Waks Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Esha Bandyopadhyay
Vice Chair
Principal
Karen E. Silverman
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP The Cantellus Group
(retired) Fish & Richardson, P.C. Yvette D. Valdez
Laura A. Wilkinson Dede Thompson Bartlett Latham & Watkins LLP
Vice Chair
Philip Morris Companies Inc. (retired) Loria B. Yeadon
PayPal Inc. Glynna Christian YMCA of Greater Seattle
Holland & Knight LLP
Honorary Directors
Muriel Fox Betty Friedan Stephanie George
Chair Fairchild Fashion Media Inc.
Past Legal Momentum Board Member and
Co-Founder, Legal Momentum and the
Co-Founder, National Organization for Michele Coleman Mayes
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Women (NOW) New York Public Library
Etta Froio Author, The Feminine Mystique
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