Neighborhood Legal Services Program is excited to celebrate with our friends and supporters at our annual Jazz for Justice event.

Doors Open at 6:45 p.m.

The Leader of Justice Award recognizes an outstanding individual who has served the civil and social justice communities as a leader, volunteer, and innovator and must also have a track record of providing support and resources to those in the community suffering discrimination and injustice.

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THE 2023 LEADER OF JUSTICE AWARDEE

Dorothy Capers

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Xylem

Dorothy G. Capers is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Xylem, Inc. Xylem is a leading global water technology company with 2022 revenues of $7B and approximately 22,000 colleagues worldwide. XYL designs, manufactures and services highly engineered products and solutions across a wide variety of critical applications in the water and energy sector. Dorothy oversees a diverse legal team across the globe that supports the Company in areas of corporate governance, finance, regulatory compliance, mergers & acquisitions, employment, labor, litigation and corporate contracts. Dorothy is a member of the Senior Executive Team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining Xylem, Dorothy was Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel of National Express, Inc. National Express is a publicly traded transportation company on the London stock exchange as a FTSE 250 company with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Spain, Bahrain, Morocco, Germany and North America. There she led a multinational team managing all aspects of the Legal and Compliance initiatives. Previous roles include Chief Litigation Counsel for US Foods, Inc. and extensive work as a litigator in the state, county and local government as well as in the private sector for law firms and corporations. Her government experience includes her leadership as a Deputy Corporation Counsel with the City of Chicago and as a prosecutor for the Cook County State's Attorney's office. Dorothy's first in house role was as Senior Counsel with Metra Railroad, a regional transportation authority.

Dorothy has lectured on legal topics related primarily to internal investigations, attorney client privilege, immigration law, development of convergence and alternative fee proposals and best practices for developing in-house litigation strategies. Dorothy has also written articles on various topics, most notably an article published in the International In-House Counsel Journal entitled The Trump Administration's New Era of Enforcement Policies and the Impact on U.S. Multinational Companies. Dorothy has been actively involved in the community for many years as a mentor and board member in various civic, nonprofit and cultural organizations. Dorothy currently sits as a member of the board of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation and the Chicago State University Foundation. She serves as a mentor for the Chicago Urban League Impact Program.

Dorothy earned her J.D. from Howard University School of Law, Washington DC and her B.A from the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.

The 2023 Leader of Justice Award will be presented by A. Scott Bolden, Partner with Reed Smith. 
 

2023 HOST COMMITTEE
*as of October 16, 2023

NLSP thanks this year’s Host Committee! The Host Committee is a group of leaders from various organizations in the legal field who are dedicated to making the Jazz for Justice event successful and furthering the mission of NLSP.

Blake Biles Arnold & Porter	Allison C. Binney Allison Binney Law/PACE Government Relations	Rod Boddie Congressional Federal Credit Union	Chris Cutler Foley & Lardner LLP
Michael D. Daneker Arnold & Porter	Lyzka DeLaCruz  Bakker DeLaCruz, LLC	Shankar Duraiswamy US Dept. of Labor	Peter B. Edelman Georgetown University
Brian Ellis Danaher	Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.  American University Washington College of Law	Anne Ford Community Volunteer/ NLSP Board Member	Douglas G. Gibson Covington & Burling
Megan Glasheen Reno & Cavanaugh	Karen Goldmeier Green Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP	Karen M. Hardwick Washington Gas	Jeffrey Harleston Universal Music Group
Astor Heaven Crowell & Moring	Susan M. Hoffman Crowell & Moring	Renee McDonald Hutchins University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law	Philip T. Inglima Crowell & Moring
Ellen M. Jakovic Kirkland & Ellis	Twinette L. Johnson UDC David A. Clarke School of Law	Harmony Jones Steptoe & Johnson LLP	Kristin Graham Koehler Sidley Austin LLP
Charles R. Lowery Jr. National Housing Conference	Curtis Lu FTI Consulting	Earl Matthews  Albers Aerospace	Tyra Williams Matthews US Dept of Homeland Security
Patrick McGlone Ullico	Amy Ralph Mudge BakerHostetler	Wilson D. Mudge Arnold & Porter LLP	Amy L. Neuhardt Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
William J. Perlstein FTI Consulting	James J. Sandman University of Pennsylvania	Richard S. Snyder  Mayer Brown	William M. Treanor Georgetown Law
Wendy Webb Williams Pairwise	April Williams WilmerHale	Rana J. Wright Harris Associates	Cheryl L. Ziegler Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

 For more information, please email Jazz4Justice@nlsp.org.  Read about the 2022 Jazz for Justice event here.