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Wanda Denson-Low is senior vice president of the Office of Internal Governance for The Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace company. A member of the company's Executive Council, Denson-Low was named to her current position in May 2007. She is responsible for the advancement and effective implementation of the company's internal governance strategies. She also maintains management oversight for Internal Audit, Ethics and Business Conduct, Global Trade Controls, which includes import-export policies and compliance, and other related regulatory and compliance matters.
Previously, Denson-Low served as the company's vice president and assistant general counsel with responsibility for leading the legal staff for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), the $32 billion defense and space unit of The Boeing Company, and its Phantom Works organization. Prior to that position, Denson-Low was the vice president of human resources for IDS and was responsible for the successful implementation of employee policies, strategies, and processes for the more than 75,000-person IDS workforce.
With more than 20 years of experience in corporate law, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, data rights, government contracts, and intellectual property law, Denson-Low has a distinguished professional career that began in 1981 as a patent attorney at Union Carbide Corporation. She joined the $16 billion Hughes Aircraft Company in 1985 and in 1989 was named Hughes' chief patent counsel, making her the first minority woman chief patent counsel of a Fortune 500 company. Denson-Low became a member of the Boeing legal team in October 2000, as part of the Boeing acquisition of Hughes Space and Communications, where she had risen to the position of general counsel for the $3.5 billion company.
As an active community leader, Denson-Low is currently a member of the board of trustees for College Bound, a member of the Windward School board of trustees and a former board member for the Japanese American National Museum. Her professional and business affiliations include the Los Angeles County Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Corporate Counsel Association, Black Women Lawyers Association and the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association.
Her extensive list of professional achievements and awards include receiving the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund Award, which recognized her as one of the thirty most powerful women in business (2001). She is also a recipient of the 2001 Barbara Clark Pioneer Award from the Boeing chapter of the Amelia Earhart Society, representing women in aerospace. In 2000, she was awarded the Silver Anniversary Award from the Los Angeles Black Women Lawyers' Association for her invaluable contributions to the community.
Denson-Low earned her juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School and a bachelors of science degree in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. She is admitted to practice law in California and Connecticut. Denson-Low is married and has two children. | 