MoFo Women
About MoFo Women
Meet MoFo’s Leading Women
MoFo Women are leaders and innovators in every sense. Learn more about our bold, brilliant, and accomplished women partners.
Events & Partnerships
MoFo engages with the broader legal community to champion the advancement of women in the profession.
Developing Women Leaders
We are deeply invested in the professional development and success of the next generation of women leaders.
Work-Life Programs
MoFo’s work-life balance programs are structured to support our attorneys in balancing their careers with their personal interests and obligations.
Affinity Groups
Seventeen affinity groups provide a source of support and connection surrounding issues facing women and working parents as they navigate the legal profession.
MoFo Women: Setting the Bar for Excellence Brochure
Read about the many accomplishments of MoFo’s women attorneys.
Mansfield Rule
Certification Plus MoFo has participated in the Mansfield Rule initiative since its inception, earning Mansfield Certified Plus status since 2017.
Allyship is Action
Allyship is Action showcases a diverse variety of our attorneys’ voices and viewpoints promoting the concept of allyship and helping both ourselves and others understand how to be a more effective ally to all communities.
Women’s Strategy Committee
Founded in 2006, MoFo’s Women’s Strategy Committee (WSC) works closely with firm leaders — including the firm’s chair, firm vice chairs, executive committee, and board of directors — to ensure that MoFo is a place where women lawyers have equal opportunity to thrive.
WSC co-chairs travel to our offices for biannual “What’s Up with the WSC” town halls. The meetings elicit helpful feedback from our lawyers that drives and improves the committee’s goals, programs, and initiatives.
Through its task - force structure, the WSC focuses on several key areas to support its mission, including alumni, marketing, professional skills programming, relationship-building among women partners and between women associates and partners, lateral recruiting, and work - life programs.
Thirty partners, counsel, of counsel, and associates serve on the WSC, along with members of our senior staff.
Co-Chairs
Committee Members
- Alexandra Preece Barlow, Partner, San Diego
Emily Beers, Of Counsel, Washington, D.C.
- Bee Chaffers, Senior Manager, Attorney Women's Initiatives, Boston
Amy Chen, Of Counsel, New York
- Tiffany Cheung, Partner, San Francisco
- Caitlin Crujido, Associate, Washington, D.C.
Kira Davis, Partner, Los Angeles
- Shaelyn K. Dawson, Partner, San Francisco
Monique Defebaugh, Chief Human Resources Officer, San Francisco
- Diane Cardona Downs, Chief Legal Talent Officer, San Francisco
- Caitlin Crujido, Associate, Washington, D.C.
Kate Driscoll, Partner, Washington, D.C.
- Erika Drous, Director of Attorney Learning & Development, Los Angeles
- Meghan Dysart, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, San Francisco
- David Ephraim, Office Managing Partner, Boston
- Annabel Gillham, Office Managing Partner, London
- Jocelyn Greer, Of Counsel, New York
- Christin J. Hill, Partner, San Francisco
- Gretchen Debenham Hug, Director of Attorney Talent - Asia, Palo Alto
- Yi-Jun Kang, Associate, Singapore
- Julia Koch, Associate, Boston
- Whitney Lee, Associate, Washington, D.C.
- Jennifer Marines, Vice Chair, New York
- Craig D. Martin, Partner, San Francisco
- Astrid Menendez-Muharram, Associate, Miami
- Cheryl Moser, Managing Director of Practice Management and Financial Analysis, San Francisco
- Natalie Fleming Nolen, Office Managing Partner, Washington, D.C.
- Joe Palmore, Partner, Washington, D.C.
- Lisa Phelan, Partner, Washington, D.C.
- Mary Prendergast, Partner, Washington, D.C.
- Usha Puri-Dewage, Assoc Director of Attorney L&D - Europe, London
- Ashley Quinn, Associate, San Diego
- Julia Schwalm, Partner, Berlin
- Chere See, Partner, Denver
- Nicole Serfoss, Partner, Denver
- Shane Shelley, Partner, San Diego
Shiri Shenhav, Partner, Palo Alto
- Shannon Sibold, Partner, Austin
- Maria Strickland, Partner, Boston
- Katherine Suzuki, Associate, Palo Alto
- Yuka Teraguchi, Partner, Tokyo
- Stephanie Thomas, Partner, Palo Alto
- Katie Viggiani, Partner, New York
Who We Are
We invite you to take a closer look at MoFo’s ongoing and ever-evolving diversity, women’s, and LGBTQ+ initiatives. In the gallery below, you’ll find a series of regularly distributed brochures featuring stories from some of MoFo’s talented lawyers, as well as highlights from recent events and programs.
Awards + Recognitions
MoFo women are setting the standard for excellence. They head teams that bring and defend groundbreaking cases; they lead cutting-edge practices; and they are nationally and internationally recognized as the best of the best by clients, competitors, and colleagues. They bring tremendous value to our firm, our clients, and our profession. The example they set with their excellence and the recognition they earn send a strong signal to other women about MoFo and the type of firm we strive to be.
- Law360 Diversity Snapshot: Ranked first overall among firms with 601+ lawyers in Law360's 2024 Diversity Snapshot for the fourth year in a row. MoFo also topped Law360’s list of the biggest law firms with the most diverse equity partners.
- Seramount (formerly Working Mother): Recognized as one of the five top-ranked firms on Seramount’s list of 50 Best Law Firms for Women & Diversity. Since the list’s inception in 2007, MoFo has been recognized 15 times, earning the firm a place in Seramount’s Hall of Fame.
- Diversity Lab: Received “Mansfield Certification Plus” recognition for 2024, joining a select group of firms to receive the honor every year since Diversity Lab’s launch of the Mansfield Rule in 2017. Mansfield seeks to promote a level playing field by recognizing firms that have implemented transparent advancement processes and have considered at least 30% of their leadership candidates from underrepresented groups. The Plus designation is reserved for firms that voluntarily provided data to show the outcomes of their inclusive processes.
- Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF): Among the 29 U.S. firms awarded Gold Standard Certification by WILEF in 2023. WILEF recognizes firms where women have a strong presence in the equity partnership and firm leadership and are among the most highly compensated partners in the firm. MoFo has received the honor every year since the WILEF award program started in 2011.