A graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and Emory University School of Law, where she was
an Earl Warren Scholar, 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.
Currently, Hatchett is a founder of a national law firm, The Hatchett Firm, P.C. based in
Atlanta, Georgia. The firm specializes in catastrophic injuries, wrongful deaths, tractor
trailer accidents, premises liability and catastrophic police misconduct cases.
She is a member of both the Georgia Bar and the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Hatchett has served on the Boards of three Fortune 500 companies – HCA, The Gap Inc.
and ServiceMaster Company.
While on the Board of Directors of HCA, she was Chair of the Ethics, Compliance and
Quality of Care Committee. She was also a member of the HCA board’s Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee. Hatchett was a member of the five-person special
board committee that negotiated HCA’s $32.7 billion leveraged buyout paving the way for
the nation’s largest for- profit hospital chain to go private. At the time, the buyout was the
largest leveraged buyout in US corporate history.
While a Board Director for The Gap Inc., Hatchett served on the Governance, Nominating
and Social Responsibility Committee and the Compensation and Management
Development Committee.
Hatchett left Delta Air Lines to accept an appointment as Chief Presiding Judge of the
Fulton County (Atlanta, Georgia) Juvenile Court—becoming the first African-American
Chief Presiding Judge of a state court in Georgia and head of one of the largest juvenile
court systems in the country.