2024 Planning Committee

Steering Committee

Chair

Dixie Johnson
King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC

Vice Chair

David Lynn
Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC

Members

Steven Bochner*
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA

Juliann Cecchi
Assistant Dean, External Partnerships, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago

Richard Climan*
Hogan Lovells US LLP, Silicon Valley, CA

Meredith Cross*
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC

Edward Greene*
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York City

Thomas Kim*
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC

Alex Lee
Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago

Robert Mundheim*
Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York City

Larry Sonsini*
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA

John White*
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York City


Planning Committee

Richard Blake
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA

Andre Bouchard
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE

Brian Breheny
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC

Lillian Brown
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC

Alexander Cohen
Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC

Robert Cohen
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York City

Gordon Davidson
Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View, CA

Christine Davine
National Managing Partner, Deloitte, Washington, DC

Sharon Flanagan
Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco

Margaret Foran
Chief Governance Officer, SVP and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ

Dennis Garris
Alston & Bird LLP, Washington, DC 

Keir Gumbs
Chief Legal Officer, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., New York City

P.J. Himelfarb
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC

Elizabeth Ising
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC

Arian June
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Washington, DC

Jeffrey Karpf
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York City

David Katz
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City

Stanley Keller
Locke Lord LLP, Boston

Mark Kronforst
Partner, Professional Practice, EY, Washington, DC

Simon Lorne
Vice Chairman & Chief Legal Officer, Millennium Partners LLP, New York City

Brian McCarthy
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles

Scott Morgan
Senior Vice President, Chief Global Affairs, and Secretary, Splunk Inc., San Francisco

Lona Nallengara
Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York City

Jane Norberg
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC

David Peinsipp
Cooley LLP, San Francisco

Lorin Reisner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York City

Scott Siamas
Vice President & Associate General Counsel-Corporate, Securities & Global Governance, Salesforce, San Francisco

Rebecca Simmons
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York City

Sarah Solum
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Silicon Valley, CA

Allison Berry Spinner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA 

Myron Steele
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE

Leo Strine Jr.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City and Wilmington, DE

Kellye Walker
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Eastman Chemical, Kingsport, TN

Richard Walker
King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC

Mary Jo White
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City


Emeritus Advisory Board

Lydia Beebe

Alan Beller

John Coffee Jr.

Thomas Cole

J. Michael Cook

James Cox

Meyer Eisenberg

Arthur Fleischer Jr.

Stephen Friedman

Daniel Goelzer

Linda Griggs

Linda Wertheimer Hart

Richard Ketchum

Donald Langevoort

Colleen Mahoney

Bruce Alan Mann

John Olson

Louise Parent

Mary Schapiro

A. Gilchrist Sparks III

E. Norman Veasey

Patricia Vlahakis


Planning Director

Shilpa Gokhale
Director, Professional & Continuing Legal Education, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago


*indicates past Institute Chair