It takes a lot for a general counsel to make Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel's list of Transformative Leaders. Not only have the GCs on this all-female list grappled with numerous business and legal challenges, but they've done so with a team-oriented attitude that lifts up the other in-house lawyers around them.

These Transformative Leadership honorees for 2017 were first named back in October at the Women, Influence & Power Conference in Washington DC, and will be profiled in the January issue of Corporate Counsel. We look forward to seeing what more they will accomplish in the coming year:

» Claudia Politanski Head of people, legal and corporate affairs, Itau Unibanco (pictured above)

» Louise Pentland Chief business affairs and legal officer, Paypal (pictured right)

» Sandie Okoro General counsel, World Bank

» Audrey Boone Tillman Chief legal officer, Aflac

» Helen Browne Group general counsel, AXA

» Janet McCarthy General counsel, Santa Fe Relo Services

» Suzanne Rich Folsom Former group general counsel, US Steel

» Sophie Gelbert Group general counsel, Air France

» Stephanie Fougou Group general counsel, Vallourec

» Katja Tautscher Group general counsel, Borealis Pharma & Healthcare

» Marianne Short Group general counsel, United Healthcare Group

» Karen Linehan Group general counsel, Sanofi

» Kim Rivera Group general counsel, HP (pictured right)

» Lori Schechter General counsel and chief compliance officer, McKesson

» Deborah Majoras Chief legal officer, Procter & Gamble

» Siobhan Moriarty Group general counsel, Diageo

» Maria Varsellona Group general counsel, Nokia

» Claudia Toussaint Group general counsel, Xylem

» Lisa Haimovitz Group general counsel, ICL Group

» Maria Juliana Marra General counsel, Zurich Argentina

» Aminata Kake Group general counsel, Befimmo (pictured right)

» Marcy Cohen Managing director and chief legal officer, Americas, ING Holdings

» Carmel Mulhern Group general counsel, head of corporate affairs, Telstra

» Amy Olli General counsel, VMWare (formerly GC of Avaya)

» Clare Wardle Group general counsel, Coca-Cola Enterprise Partners

» Mitsuru Claire Chino Group general counsel, Itochu Corporation

» Rena Reiss Executive VP, general counsel, Marriott International

» Kelly Mahon Tullier Group general counsel, Visa

» Maria Sanz Perez Group general counsel, Anglogold Ashanti

» Janice Block Group general counsel, Kaplan

» Edith Shih Board secretary, CK Hutchinson

» Amanda Harkness Former group general counsel and board secretary, ASX

» Nina Macpherson Senior vice-president, chief legal officer and head of legal affairs, Ericsson