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Hatchett is the proud founder of The Hatchett Firm, P.C. located in Atlanta, GA. The firm specializes in risk and crisis management and catastrophic police misconduct cases.
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The Judge is passionate, compelling, heart warming speaker! She is non-traditional in her approach, in that she does not “present” to an audience, she holds a conversation. She is refined, articulate and communicates with deep passion.
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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.
Corporate America, its challenges and responsibility in reshaping this nation. Judge Hatchett served for many years as in-house counsel for a leading global airline and has served on 3 fortune 500 boards of directors and is uniquely situated to address this issue of leadership. Corporate leadership demands an enormous amount of responsibility.
Judge Hatchett will outline 7 principles of leadership including the fact that leaders must first seek to serve, they cannot lead where they are not willing to go and they must lead with integrity, passion and compassion. Additionally recognizing that corporations are challenged to support, through its philanthropic activities, the community it seeks to serve.
Drawing from her long career as Chief Judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court, one of the largest juvenile courts in the nation, Judge Hatchett relays with great passion some of the most heart rendering stories that deal with issues that face America including poverty, crime, delinquency and education.
She not only outlines these issues but she deals with substantial solutions as we look at how we improve life for young people in America.
Every parent is faced with the critical questions of how to most effectively parent, regardless of your demographics or your status, all of our children are facing the issues of these challenging times.
Judge Hatchett conducts a conversation about how parents can strive to be the best parent possible because when it is all said and done if we want our children to do right; we’ve got to do right by them. We do not get another chance to do the best we can for this generation while they are still our children.
A challenge to define your purpose and passion. How do you transform your dreams into reality? Judge Hatchett conducts a discussion about life’s journeys – how do you find your life’s purpose and how do you connect that purpose with a meaningful legacy. What are you doing now that will live beyond your lifetime?
Judge Hatchett will help you form a blueprint for a purposeful life, by setting goals, reaching possibilities beyond anything one could imagine and stressing that your past does not have to dictate your future.
You control what is next and possible in your life. She will conduct a conversation about the potential range of the magnificent path awaiting you.
Judge Hatchet was absolutely phenomenal! As our keynote speaker for our Black Employees Leadership Summit, she delivered an AMAZING yet powerful presentation on "Leadership" that inspired everyone from the emerging leaders to C-Suite Executives.
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