The Black General Counsel Project: Tetra Tech’s Preston Hopson

Preston Hopson, senior vice president and general counsel of Pasadena, Calif.-based Tetra Tech, Inc., believes that improvements in general counsel diversity have come in part because companies are increasingly promoting from the pool of qualified candidates they already have

“With the recent renewed push for diversity from shareholders, clients, employees, and sectors of the community, these individuals are now being given the chance to do the job for which they are more than prepared,” Hopson said in a recent Bloomberg Law survey.

Black general counsel now make up over 5% of all general counsel in the Fortune 1000, ...