Sandra I. Herrera was appointed Associate General Counsel in 2017 and Corporate Secretary since 2018. Prior to this time, in 2016, Ms. Herrera served as a legal consultant to our Company.
Ms. Herrera helps oversee the Company’s legal affairs, representing the Company and directing its outside counsel, in transactional and litigation matters across various business units, including financings, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, construction, and development projects.
Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Herrera was in private law firm practice with a focus on real estate transactions for corporate and government clients.
Ms. Herrera earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Carleton College, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Juris Doctorate from Stanford Law School. She served as an extern for the Honorable S. James Otero in the Central District of California. Ms. Herrera is a Trustee, and former Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Chief Financial Officer, of the Mexican-American Bar Foundation, a non-profit organized and operated by volunteers to enhance the diversity of the legal profession through education, and has since its inception in 1991, raised over $3.6 million in scholarship funds.