George K. H. Schell

George K. H. Schell, General Counsel, George K. H. Schellbegan his career in 1984 as a Staff Attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. He was a litigation associate at Steinhart + Falconer, a Deputy City Attorney and Chief of General Litigation for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, and General Counsel for the Oakland Athletics. In 1996, he began a two-decade career as a business manager and legal counsel at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, ultimately serving as Chief Marketing Counsel for Coca-Cola North America. George’s public service background includes serving as Chairman of the Board of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council and as a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Council of Better Businesses Bureaus. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Smithsonian Institute’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. In 2016, he received the first-ever Diversity Legacy Award from the California Minority Counsel Program and Villanova Law School’s Charles Widger Award for Outstanding Public Service and Professional Excellence. He holds a B.A. in political science from U.C. Santa Barbara and a law degree from UCLA.