Speakers
Marilyn serves as Associate Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Corporate and Intellectual Property Litigation at Nationwide and leads the teams responsible for managing and directing strategy for all Corporate and Intellectual Property litigation and the discovery management legal function. She personally represents Nationwide in matters pertaining to the areas for which she is responsible including regulatory or agency matters and class actions. Previously, Marilyn led the teams which managed both Property and Casualty extra-contractual litigation and P&C Class action litigation. She also serves on the law department's Diversity and Inclusion Council.
Before joining Nationwide, Marilyn served as Employment Law Counsel at Rite Aid Corporation where she led the employment legal team which managed and directed strategy in litigation, and other regulatory agency investigations along with class and collective actions. While at Rite Aid, Marilyn also served as Chief Negotiator and represented the company in collective bargaining and labor arbitrations and served on the CEO's Ethics committee. Prior to that time, she was in private practice in West Virginia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. She has represented private and public sector clients, including public officials, in multiple industries in regulatory and litigation matters in federal and state courts and collective bargaining.
Marilyn holds both a BA and JD from West Virginia University, where she serves on the College of Law's Visiting Committee. She is licensed in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Marilyn is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a past Fellow of the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity and sits on its Alumni Executive Council. She is a community steward and served as Chair and Founder of the Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) for Delaware County, is President Elect for the Ohio Women’s Bar Association (OWBA), and serves as Board Chair of the United Way of Delaware County, Ohio.