The Black General Counsel Project: Home Depot’s Teresa Wynn Roseborough

Teresa Wynn Roseborough, the general counsel of home improvement retailer The Home Depot, Inc., said aspiring in-house lawyers should seek a “well-rounded grounding” of career experience, which could include time spent outside the public sector.

“I was lucky to start my career working for the government, which gave me experience in thinking about the law from a point of neutrality: ‘What should the law do in this situation? What does this law mean in this circumstance?’” Roseborough said in a recent Bloomberg Law survey.

Black general counsel now make up over 5% of all general counsel in the Fortune ...