Vicki serves as Executive VP and General Counsel of Ryder System, Inc. Ryder is a leading transportation and supply chain management solutions company headquartered in Miami. Vicki leads the safety, security and environmental departments, the government relations function, and serves on the Company's Leadership Team.
Ms. O’Meara joined Ryder in 1997 from the law firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, where she was a partner and chair of the firm’s worldwide Environmental, Health and Safety practice. Ms. O'Meara has also served in a variety of federal government positions including Assistant Attorney General, heading the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Assistant to the General Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of the Army. Ms. O'Meara was a White House Fellow, and in that capacity, served as Special Assistant to the White House Counsel and as Deputy Executive Secretary to the Cabinet Domestic Policy Council.
Ms. O'Meara is a Director of Laidlaw, Inc. She has also served in the following capacities: Adjunct Professor of the Union Institute in Cincinnati, OH; Faculty Member, Army Logistics Management Institute, Ft. Lee, VA; and Faculty, National ALI-ABA programs.
Vicki received a BA in political science from Cornell, where she graduated cum laude and was selected as Outstanding Senior of her class; a law degree from Northwestern University Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Law Review and a member of the National Moot Court team; and a MA in environmental science and resource policy from George Washington University.
She has been a member of the Board of Northwestern Corporate Counsel, the Cornell President's Council for Women, and currently serves as a director on the following Community organization boards: Defenders of Property Rights, Florida Council on Economic Education, and Zoological Society of South Florida. |
At the time of our 30th reunion, Vicki was settling into her new job as Chief Legal Officer of Pitney Bowes. She was also settling her family into their new home in Stamford, CT and settling her oldest son into his first year at Harvard.
At the time of our 35th reunion, Vicki is taking a break from the corporate world after successfully leading the divestiture of a large division from Pitney Bowes. She had served as Group President of Pitney Bowes Business Services for several years. Her oldest son graduated from Harvard in 2013 and is now in Yale law school, while her youngest son is in the Marshall School at USC.
At the time of our 40th reunion, Vicki is Executive Chairman & Board Chair of AdSwerve. She spent 4 years as CEO of Seattle-based Analytics Pros before they were acquired by AdSwerve (a leading marketing tech firm headquartered in Denver) who provide data-based marketing solutions to the world's largest brands and independent agencies.
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