Job Title:  Senior corporate counsel.

Current primary practice area: Commercial litigation, with a focus on class actions, antitrust recovery, real estate and construction litigation and Canadian litigation.

Experience: The Home Depot, 2015-present; Jones Day, 2006-2015.

Education: University of Notre Dame Law School, 2006; University of South Carolina, 2002.

What drew you to a career in law? In college, I double majored in political science and Spanish. I was interested in being an FBI agent, and two of the specializations that help getting that job are foreign language skills and a law degree. Fortunately for all of us, I didn't end up being an FBI agent, so here I am working as a commercial litigator.

Have you set a specific goal that you want to achieve in the next year? The Home Depot has a robust pro bono practice, and I'd like to take on more projects this year. Pro bono is an opportunity to dust off legal skills I don't use every day. It's also a great way to partner with outside counsel while giving back to the Atlanta community.

What has been your proudest career moment and biggest challenge? Three years ago, we began challenging precedent that was preventing removal of certain class actions to federal court. That effort culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court argument by my practice group leader this January. Being hands-on in that process and sitting at counsel's table for the argument was surreal.

Differently, but no less significant, in 2011 I was a fellow at Atlanta Legal Aid. For four months, I primarily represented people fighting wrongful evictions and secured domestic violence protective orders. It was the hardest, most humbling work I've ever done and the period in my career of which I'm most proud.