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Charisse Lillie Senior Vice President, Human Resources Comcast Corporation |
Charisse R. Lillie joined Comcast in 2005 as Vice President, Human Resources for Comcast Corporation, and Senior Vice-President, Human Resources of Comcast Cable Communications. Ms. Lillie was a partner in the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, in Philadelphia from 1992 to 2005. She also served as Chair of the Litigation Department at Ballard Spahr from 2002 to 2005.
In 2006, Ms. Lillie was elected to the Board of Directors of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. She serves on the Board of Howard University. Ms. Lillie is a past Chair of the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. She is the former Chair of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She served as City Solicitor for Philadelphia from 1990 to 1992. She began her career as a law clerk to Honorable Clifford Scott Green of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was a Justice Department lawyer with five years of service.
Ms. Lillie is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2007 Paragon Award from the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC), the 2007 Philadelphia Magazine Trailblazer Award, the 2007 Woman of Distinction Award from the Community Women’s Education Project, the 2005 Learned Hand Award from the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Jewish Committee, the 2005 PWR Award from the Professional Women’s Roundtable, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 2003 Anne X. Alpern Award, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Awards of Excellence Honoree, and the 2002 Women of Distinction Award from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Charisse is also Co-Chair of the planning committee for the 2007 NAMIC Conference.
The Houston, Texas native received her B.A. in 1973 from Wesleyan University - cum laude; her J.D. in 1976 from Temple Law School - Dean’s Honor List; and her LL.M. in 1982 from Yale Law School. In 2005, she was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA.