Legal

Richard Alonso HF Sinclair
Richard Alonso Is an Environmental Lawyer with Unrivaled Perspective

HF Sinclair’s Richard Alonso has decades in government, private practice, and in-house experience

Ana Daniels Ascend Advanced Therapies
How Ana Daniels Shaped a Purpose-Driven Legal Career

To the world, Ana Daniels is many things: top biotech attorney, savvy business entrepreneur, board member. To her family, she is the world.

Arthur Munoz Southwest Airlines
Arthur Munoz Helps Launch a New Era at Southwest Airlines

Attorney Arthur Munoz joins Southwest Airlines at the perfect time to help drive a once-in-a-lifetime evolution

Monica Gutierrez
Monica Gutierrez Brings Humility, Openness to Her IP Practice

Award-winning IP attorney Monica Gutierrez forges relationships with openness and empathy to protect brands and their people

Nikki Adame-Winningham Pfizer Inc.
Nikki Adame-Winningham Is Pfizer’s Introverted Knight in Shining Armor

Nikki Adame-Winningham continues to help build out a sustainable path for Pfizer as regulations get tougher to harmonize

Daniel Garcia Steptoe & Johnson
Daniel Garcia: From Shrimper in the Gulf to Energy Attorney

Steptoe & Johnson’s Daniel Garcia on his unlikely path to energy law and how the next generation can find their way, too

Cristal Lambert Educational Testing Service
Cristal Lambert Builds Leaders, Lifts Communities

How ETS’s Assistant General Counsel leads the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey into its next chapter

Lorraine Hernández Owens Corning
Lorraine Hernández Creates the Life She Envisioned, Two Times Over

Lorraine Hernández moved to the US to get her master’s in chemistry, but is now a successful in-house attorney at Owens Corning

Lourdes Rodríguez-Morera OneDigital
Lourdes Rodríguez-Morera builds a culture at OneDigital

With a passion for litigation, people, fairness, workplace culture, and compliance, Lourdes Rodríguez-Morera helps OneDigital navigate the complicated business of insurance, financial services, and HR.

The Walt Disney Company
Alessandra Zaldívar-Giuffredi Was Born to be an International Attorney

Alessandra Zaldívar-Giuffredi talks about her Latino/Italian household growing up and being a role model for others

Jorge Pliego Improving Enterprises
Jorge Pliego Brings a Holistic Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions

While many companies emphasize the financial side of a merger or acquisition, Jorge Pliego emphasizes several other factors to determine value, particularly soft side ones

Luis E. Gomez Ford Motor Company
Luis E. Gomez Leads High-Stakes Class Action Defense Worldwide for Ford

Luis E. Gomez drives litigation strategy and legal innovation as a trusted business partner at Ford

Ronald Martinez Vanderbilt University
Ronald Martinez Outworked the Odds

Ronald Martinez details an unexpected journey from small-town rural roots to legal leadership at Vanderbilt University

Roxana Mondragón-Motta Ericsson
Roxana Mondragón-Motta Is the Product of Immigration

Roxana Mondragón-Motta of Ericsson speaks multiple languages. But Spanish was the one that drove her career further than her younger self ever imagined.

Suzette Recinos PepsiCo
Suzette Recinos Wants You to Make Your Vision Known

Suzette Recinos was promoted to PepsiCo’s general counsel of LatAm by cultivating a reputation of speaking up and taking on big challenges

Richard Muñoz Buckner International
Richard Muñoz Builds Better Nonprofits

Richard Muñoz guides nonprofit Buckner International as it grows with intention and strives to build self-sustaining programs

Sylvia-Rebecca Gutiérrez Stevens Institute of Technology
Sylvia-Rebecca “Becky” Gutiérrez Leads with A Curious Mind

Sylvia-Rebecca “Becky” Gutiérrez, assistant general counsel at the Stevens Institute of Technology, has always had a drive to know more

Monica Lopez Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
Monica Lopez Grew Up in the Fields and Is Now a Star In-House Attorney

Monica Lopez reflects on life as a migrant and the parents who raised her to become a successful corporate counsel

Deanna Ortiz McDonald’s
Deanna Ortiz Transformed a College Basketball Career into a Legal Career

Playing Division 1 basketball taught Deanna Ortiz accountability, how to communicate with a variety of individuals, and how to build relationships

Lynn Lugo IQVIA
Lynn Lugo Dares to Be Herself

From soldier to senior counsel, Lynn Lugo has carved a global path defined by resilience, intellect, and authenticity—rising through the ranks of law and technology while championing Latino representation in the legal field

Gustavo Torres Fervo Energy
Gustavo Torres Helps Scale Up Fervo Energy

VP and General Counsel Gustavo Torres is dedicated to promoting clean, firm power by helping Fervo Energy set a standard in renewable energy