Linda Addison is Past Managing Partner and Chair of the Management Committee of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP. For more than three decades, she worked with CEOs, corporate boards, and corporate executives across multiple industry sectors, both regulated and unregulated.
She is Lead Independent Director of Globe Life Inc. (NYSE: GL), an S&P 500 company, and serves on the board of Lexitas, an Apax Partners private equity portfolio company. Linda previously served as an independent director of KPMG LLP, on the board of a NASDAQ-listed SPAC, and on the Advisory Board of Northern Trust Bank, N.A.
Linda was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in New York” by CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS. She has been named one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America” and one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America,” both by the NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. The TEXAS LAWYER honored Linda with its Lifetime Achievement Award. She was named a “Distinguished Leader” by the NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL.
She is Founding President of the Center for Women in Law. The American Bar Association awarded her its prestigious Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, the highest award given to recognize women lawyers who have achieved professional excellence and have paved the way for other women lawyers. Past recipients include Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Linda is a 2013 Distinguished Alumna of The University of Texas. She received the University’s Presidential Citation in 2015. In 2008 she was named Outstanding Alumna of the University of Texas School of Law.
She is chair of the Executive Committee of the Chancellor’s Council of the University of Texas System. She served as a member of the University of Texas’s Commission of 125 and the Centennial Commission. Linda currently serves on the boards of Catalyst, the M. D. Anderson Center Board of Visitors, and the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center for Energy Law and Business. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Linda is a 1976 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where she was the first woman Managing Editor of the Texas Law Review.