NAWL Impact List
New in 2025, the
NAWL Impact List recognizes mid-level and senior-level lawyers who have attained a high level of professional accomplishment and have demonstrated a personal commitment to and positive impact on NAWL’s mission of advancing women in the profession or advocating for women under the law.
2026 Recipients
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Elaina Kim Benfield
Assistant General Counsel,
Vanguard
Louise Ing
Partner,
Dentons
Partner and Co-Chair, Investigations, Compliance, and Defense Practice,
Jenner & Block LLP
Co-Chair, Litigation Practice Group and Member, Executive Committee,
Perkins Coie LLP
2025 Recipients
Diane Ambler
Senior Of Counsel
K&L Gates LLP
Kathleen Dillon Narko
Clinical Professor of Law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Monica Dula
Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Division
Legal Aid Society
Pamela C. Enslen
Executive Director
California LAW Pathways
Judy Man-Ling Lam
Litigation Partner
Maynard Nexsen (Los Angeles)
Eileen M. Letts
Partner
Zuber Lawler LLP
Peggy A. Nagae
Principal, Peggy Nagae Consulting, and
Co-Founder, Minoru Yasui Legacy Project
Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D., PCC, CMC
Founding Principal
Lawyers Life Coach LLC
Kristen Pugsley-Onsager
Assistant General Counsel
Microsoft
