{"id":10380,"date":"2018-07-16T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:36:35","slug":"alonzo-weems-92-named-influential-black-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2018\/07\/16\/alonzo-weems-92-named-influential-black-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonzo Weems \u201992 Named Influential Black Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/07\/Weems_Alonzo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10381 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/07\/Weems_Alonzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/07\/Weems_Alonzo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/07\/Weems_Alonzo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>Alonzo Weems has been included in Savoy magazine\u2019s annual listing of the most influential black lawyers in the United States. The listing showcases African-American men and women who have been recognized for their legal leadership and expertise in national and global corporations.<\/p>\n<p>As Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Eli Lilly and Co., Alonzo oversees Lilly\u2019s corporate legal function \u2013 litigation, human resources, commercial transactions, regulatory and privacy \u2013 and serves as General Counsel for the company\u2019s global biomedicines business unit.<\/p>\n<p>Following his 1992 graduation from Wabash, Alonzo received his J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He joined Lilly in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Alonzo!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savoynetwork.com\/features\/alonzo-weems\/\">Savoy Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alonzo Weems has been included in Savoy magazine\u2019s annual listing of the most influential black lawyers in the United States. The listing showcases African-American men and women who have been recognized for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/07\/Weems_Alonzo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}