Dorothy G. Capers

Dorothy Capers is a corporate attorney and legal business partner with more than 30 years of extensive in-house, government and private law firm experience, primarily in the areas of litigation and litigation management. As Global General Counsel, she manages multinational legal teams in the UK, Spain, Germany and the Middle East. She joined NELLC in 2015 from US Foods, where she served for six years as associate general counsel and led the litigation and bankruptcy team for the Company. While at US Foods, Dorothy was a member of the merger team guiding US Foods through its $8.2 billion putative merger with Sysco. Prior to US Foods, she has held positions at the City of Chicago Department of Law, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and Metra Railroad. Dorothy previously served as President of the Black Women Lawyer’s Association of Greater Chicago and is currently on the Board of Directors at the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, Children’s Home and Aid and the Chicago State University foundation. She holds a J.D. from Howard University School of Law and a B.A. in Speech Communication and History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.