Black Women have been reaching strong heights and breaking both racial and gender barriers. We have been reporting black women who are leading in various top organizations and one of such women is Halimah DeLaine Prado; she has just been named the general counsel for google.
She has now joined the emerging list of black women in leadership positions of Fortune 500 companies.
Halimah DeLaine Prado was appointed in August by Google as its general counsel to oversee the company’s legal department. Besides her appointment aiming to improve diversity in the world’s number one search engine, she is also well qualified for the job.
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Before her appointment, Delaine Prado ran Google’s product legal team, and her promotion comes at a critical time; as the company has been facing multiple antitrust investigations from governments around the world, according to Fortune. The tech giant has also been bedeviled by complaints from employees that it has failed to take action against racism and sexism.
Delaine Prado will report directly to Google’s SVP of global affairs, Kent Walker, in her new role. Fortune describes Walker as an influential lawyer who has played a key role; in guiding the company’s political and legal response to the numerous challenges it has been facing.
By her appointment, DeLaine Prado will become part of an elite group of Black women occupying that role at a Fortune 500 company; which includes Rhonda Ferguson of railroad company Union Pacific and Deneen Donnley of energy company Con Edison; according to Because of Them We Can
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DeLaine Prado grew up in the Philadelphia area. She is a graduate of Yale and Georgetown law school. She has been at Google since 2006 and recently served as vice president of legal; where she ran the global team handling counsel for Google products including; ads, search and YouTube, according to Axios.
Before joining Google, she practiced media law and products liability law at Dechert LLP and Levine Sullivan Koch and Schulz (now Ballard Spahr). Also, she worked as a clerk for the Honorable Mary A. McLaughlin of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; according to a biography on the website of a charter school where she’s a board member.
The wife and mother of two is passionate about education and juvenile rights; and has served on multiple boards that address these issues. She once served on the board of the Juvenile Law Center; which advocates for the rights, dignity, equity and opportunity for youth in the child welfare and justice systems.