FORTUNE FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES INDUSTRY*
LIST OF MINORITY GENERAL COUNSEL & #
A Electronics, Offi ce Equipment (A) B Insurance (B) C
D Food & Drug Stores (D)
E General Merchandisers, Speciality Retailers, Wholesalers: Diversifi ed, etc. (E)
F
Financial Services: Diversifi ed Financials, Securities, Banks (F)
G Transportation & Logistics (G) H Telecommunications (H) I
J
K Motor Vehicles (K) L
M Airlines (M) 34
N Real Estate, Hotels & Casinos (N) O Chemicals (O) P
Forest & Paper Products (P)
Q Publishing, Printing (Q) R S
Scientifi c, Photo Control Equipment (R) Railroads (S)
T Mail, Packaging, Freight (T) Z Other (Z) Total
13.95 6 4.7
Energy, Gas, Petroleum Refi ning, Pipelines, Etc. (C)
11.6 2.3 11.6 2.3
0 0
Pharmaceuticals, Medical Products & Equipment, Healthcare (I)
Food Services, Consumer Food Products (J) Industrial & Farm Equipment (L) 11.6
2 5
1 5
1
0 0 5
13.95 6 4.7 7
2.3 4.7 2.3 0 0
4.7 0
2.3 0
100
2 3 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0
43
*Percentage of all Fortune 500 Companies with minority general counsel BY RACE/ETHNICITY
Race/Ethnicity*
Asian American/Pacifi c Islander Hispanic
African American Middle Eastern Total
%
27.9 14
55.8 2.3 100
#
12 6
24 1
43 Forty-three companies on the 2011 Fortune 500 list
employed minorities as general counsel [8.6 percent], the same number as the previous year. T is holding pattern broke a string of increases in this number that included a jump from 37 minority general counsel in 2008 and 41 in 2009. Of those 43 minority general counsel, 24 are African Americans, 11 are Asian Americans, and six are Hispanic Americans. T e list also includes one woman Middle Eastern general counsel and a male general counsel from Armenia. T e Hispanic and Asian GC numbers remained constant from the year before, but the African American total dropped by one. T e number of Fortune 500 minority general coun-
sel who are also women continues to increase. In 2008 and 2009 only eight women of color held the position of general counsel at a Fortune 500 company, but that number increased to 11 last year and increased again this year to 15. T is is heartening news, for while the total number of minority general counsel did not increase this year, women of color continued their advance atop the legal departments of the biggest companies in the United States. Of the 15 female minority general counsel on the 2011 Fortune 500 list, nine are African American [an increase of two from last year], three are Hispanic [the same as last year], and two are Asian American [an increase of one over 2010]. At the Fortune 250 level, 27 companies are represented
by a minority general counsel, a drop of one from last year, but the same as 2009. Fifteen of these are African Americans—the same number as last year—while fi ve are Hispanic [down one from last year], and six are Asian Americans [equal with last year’s total]. T e minor- ity general counsel highest on the list are both Asian American men—John Chou at AmerisourceBergen [27th on the Fortune 500] and Lawrence Tu at Dell [41]. T e African Americans highest on the list are both women— Teri Plummer-McClure at United Parcel Service [48] and Michele Coleman Mayes at Allstate [89]. T e Hispanic American highest on the Fortune 500 list this year is Gloria Santana of McDonald’s [102]. Of the 27 companies in the Fortune 250 with minority general counsel,
ASIAN AMERICAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER 27.9% HISPANIC 14% AFRICAN AMERICAN 55.8% MIDDLE EASTERN 2.3% *Percentage of all Fortune 500 Companies with women general counsel
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