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Equal Access to Justice Award Luncheon 2024

Date:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time:
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
RPM Events
317 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60654
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The Legal Aid Society's Equal Access to Justice Luncheon supports critical legal services for low-income, Chicago-area families, and recognizes the outstanding pro bono work supporting those services. Sponsorship Information
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heather russell Heather Russell
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer
at TransUnion

Heather J. Russell is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of TransUnion. Ms. Russell is an accomplished legal executive with more than 25 years of diverse experience across the global financial services and technology sectors. She is responsible for legal, risk, compliance, government and regulatory relations, corporate governance, consumer privacy and ESG functions for TransUnion and its subsidiaries around the world. Prior to joining the Company in 2018, Ms. Russell was a partner at the law firm of Buckley, LLP, where she led the firm’s Financial Institutions Regulation, Supervision and FinTech practices. Previously, she served as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Fifth Third Bank. Prior to that, she served as Managing Director and Global Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Bank of New York Mellon, and as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Bank of America. She also spent eight years at Skadden in Washington, D.C. and London focused on financial services, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Russell earned her B.A. from the College of William & Mary and her J.D. with honors from American University’s Washington College of Law, where she received the Outstanding Graduate Award. Ms. Russell serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organization, representing the interests of over three million businesses and organizations. She is also on the boards of Illinois Legal Aid Online and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs where she chairs the board’s Nominating and Governance Committee.

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