Hannah Gordon is an executive, speaker, writer, teacher, and Presidential Leadership Scholar. She serves as the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers. Named one of football's most influential women by NFL.com, Gordon's career started as the first female beat writer for UCLA's Daily Bruin. Gordon went on to work for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders, the National Football League Players Association, the University of California at Berkeley, and the National Football League's office in New York where she was the only woman in a non-secretary role in the salary cap department and was dubbed the "Queen of the Lockout" for her role in the 2011 collective bargaining negotiations. Gordon has been named a Sports Business Journal Game Changer, Legal 500 U.S. Rising Star, Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence, Forty Under 40, and Corporate Counsel Diversity Champion. Gordon speaks around the country and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, among others, and has been featured on NFL Network, SB Nation, and the Huffington Post, among other publications. Gordon holds a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from Stanford where she served as a lecturer in law.
