An article in the Aug. 6, 2024, edition of the Daily News-Record newspaper detailed the illustrious legal career of EMU alumna Anne Showalter ’90.
Click here to read the story at dnronline.com by reporter Lisa Landram.
Showalter grew up in Broadway, Virginia, and graduated from EMU with bachelor’s degrees in biology and English. She then graduated from the University of Virginia with a master’s degree in English. After a year teaching English at James Madison University, she earned her law degree at U.Va.
Showalter currently serves as senior vice president and general counsel, Supply Chain and Legal Contracting Network, at GSK.
She has “more than 25 years of diverse legal experience, including leading a team of 40 lawyers across eight countries at GSK, serving as the general counsel of a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, and working in a top Boston law firm,” the article states.
“I lead a team of 40 lawyers based in the U.S., India, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, and Singapore, who support global contracting, manufacturing, and supply of GSK products,” she told the DN-R.
Her father, Donald Showalter ’62, was the first EMU graduate to attend law school. He practiced for 59 years in Harrisonburg, according to the DN-R article. Click here to read a profile about him in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Crossroads magazine.
More stories about Anne Showalter:
American Healthcare Leader (May 2024) — “Anne Showalter Shares the Power of Stretch Roles“
Crossroads Magazine (July 2015) — “Anne Showalter: Corporate attorney in Chapel Hill, N.C.“
I knew Ann’s parents and grandparents.
They would all be so pleased at the focus she has taken. I am too!