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Bowes [421]—replaced women general counsel with men, but other companies that saw a woman depart the top of their legal department—Cigna [122] and HealthNet [179]—named another woman as a replacement. No doubt replacing one woman general counsel with another will become an increas- ingly common feature of this list in the years to come. Some companies with women general counsel fell out of
the top 500 into the second half of the list this year, such as Kindred Healthcare [477 to 501], CA [482 to 504] and Unisys [452 to 521]. T ose companies are represented by M. Suzanne Riedman, Amy Fliegelman, and Nancy Sundheim, respectively.
FORTUNE 501–1000 In this year’s survey, 82 women general counsel appear in the Fortune 1000—an increase of two from the previous year and 10 more than the 2007 survey. T ree Fortune 1000 women GCs represent companies that fell out of the top 500. Eleven companies either re-entered the list or moved onto it for the fi rst time. In addition to the 77 white/ Caucasian women in this list, the Fortune 1000 roster of women GCs include three African Americans and two Hispanics. Unfortunately, these numbers represent a loss of one African American and one Asian Pacifi c American,
though the Hispanic number is up one from last year. Frontier Communications [558] replaced a woman general counsel with another woman, while Teradata [932] replaced a white male with a white female GC. T e larger states continue to have the highest representa-
tion of companies with women general counsel, with New York [11] and California [10] comprising more than one quarter of all women GC in the Fortune 1000. Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio all have six companies on the Fortune 1000 list represented by women GCs, and Texas and Alabama round out the top of the list with fi ve each.
STILL GROWING After a disappointing drop two years ago in the representa- tion of women general counsel at companies on the Fortune 500 list, the 2011 MCCA survey marks the second straight year of healthy growth. T e recovery of corporate America in 2009 and 2010 has been matched by women general counsel at Fortune 500 companies and with their numbers topping 100 for the fi rst time, it’s likely that continued progress is in the future. It seems America’s biggest compa- nies, and the increasing number of women who run their legal departments, are looking as strong as ever.
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