PDJ Salutes our First Annual
Veteran Leadership Award Winners
For more than two decades, Profiles in Diversity Journal® has honored outstanding individuals who have blazed new trails. They have welcomed challenges, mentored others, advanced diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the community, and excelled in their chosen fields. We are honoring Veteran Leaders with our First Annual Veteran Leadership Awards.
The nine profiles that appear in this issue recognize and celebrate the hard work and impressive achievements of these Veteran Leaders. Each award recipient has also provided us with answers to some interesting questions and an essay that will give you, our readers, a chance to better know these multitalented and trailblazing individuals.
Welcome to PDJ’s first ever Veteran Leadership Awards.
2023 Veteran Leadership™ Award Winners
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP – Matthew “Matt” LeMaster – Partner, Co-chair of Veteran Attorneys Affinity group
- Freddie Mac – John Emans – Business Lead, Mortgage Servicing Policy
- Freddie Mac – Bill Lyons – Senior Director, Servicing Capital Markets
- Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (GEHA) – John A. Johnson MD, MBA, FACP – Chief Medical Officer
- Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP – Cheryl T. Burgess – Partner
- Latham & Watkins – Kyle Jefcoat – Partner
- Moss Adams, LLP – Nicole Darty – Operations Senior Manager
- New York Life – Kenneth Drinkard – SVP & General Auditor
- Orbital Engineering, Inc. – Robert J. Lewis – CEO & Owner
