Temple University Harrisburg is hosting Social Justice Innovators: the Value of a Healthy Community.

This three-part speaker series is being held in partnership with the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg. Register for this and other programs in the speaker series online at Harrisburg.temple.edu/speakers.

Judge Glenda Hatchett presents: The Corporate Challenge to Lead and Serve

Corporate leadership demands an enormous amount of responsibility.

Judge Hatchett will outline seven principles of leadership including the fact that leaders must first seek to serve, they cannot lead where they are not willing to go and they must lead with integrity, passion and compassion. Additionally recognizing that corporations are challenged to support, through their philanthropic activities, the communities they seek to serve.

A graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and Emory University School of Law, where she was an Earl Warren Scholar, Judge Glenda Hatchett completed a prestigious federal clerkship in the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia. She then spent nearly 10 years at Delta Air Lines, where she was the airline’s highest-ranking woman of color worldwide. As Senior Attorney, she represented Delta Air Lines in labor/personnel and antitrust litigation and commercial acquisitions. As Public Relations Manager, she supervised global crisis management and handled media relations for 50 U.S. cities as well as all of Europe and Asia.

Hatchett also presided over the two-time Emmy nominated nationally syndicated show, Judge Hatchett, for 13 seasons (Sony Pictures Television). Judge Hatchett won a Prism Award for Best Unscripted Non-Fiction Series or Special for Television. Currently, she sits on the National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons’ Board of Advisors, a position she has held since 2004, and serves as a consultant to the National Basketball Association on pressing legal and social issues.