The Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award is given to legal professionals who promote LGBT equality through words and actions to create more secure and welcoming workplaces. Award receptions give LGBT legal professionals and their straight allies the opportunity to honor distinguished colleagues who have worked hard to increase LGBT diversity awareness in the corporate office and in the community.

For a list of upcoming Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award Receptions, please click here.

Previous Awardees

Houston 2013:

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Assistant General Counsel
BP America

Los Angeles 2013:

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NBCUniversal

New York 2013:

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Executive Director, Legal & Compliance
Morgan Stanley

Dallas 2013:

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London 2012:

Tim Hailes
Managing Director & Associate General Counsel
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

San Diego 2012:

Tristan Higgins
Director, Law Department
Sony Electronics, Inc.

San Francisco 2012:

Legal Department of Wells Fargo

Philadelphia 2012:

Legal Department of GlaxoSmithKline

Los Angeles 2012:

Christopher Murphy
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
DIRECTV

Houston 2012:

Legal Department of Shell Oil Company

New York 2012:
John Myung and the Legal Department of Prudential Financial

Seattle 2011:

Legal and Corporate Affairs Department
Microsoft

Washington, DC 2011:

Nancy Herman
Deputy General Counsel
UnitedHealth Group

Minneapolis 2011:

John Sullivan
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary (Ret’d)
Imation

San Francisco 2011:

Christian Dowell
Legal Director, Global Brand Protection
Yahoo! Inc.

Chicago 2011:

Norma Barnes-Euresti
Vice President, Chief Counsel, Labor-Employment & Intellectual Property
Kellogg Company

Los Angeles 2011:

Dean Marks
Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property
Warner Bros. Entertainment

Boston 2011:

Cindy Westervelt
Vice President of Human Resources
Staples Contract & Commercial, Inc.

Atlanta 2011:

Sharon J. Zealey
Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer
The Coca-Cola Company

New York 2010:

Lawrence N. Chanen
Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Washington, DC 2010:

Charles A. Berardesco
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary,
and Chief Compliance Officer
Constellation Energy

San Francisco 2010:

Wayne P. Sobon
Associate General Counsel & Director of Intellectual Property
Accenture

Dawn Smith
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
VMWare, Inc.

Los Angeles 2010:

Frank Smith
Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs
Walden Media

San Francisco 2009:

Hilary Ware
Legislative Counsel
Google, Inc.

New York 2008:

Richard J. Parent
Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs
MTV Networks/LOGO