It wasn’t a path Judge had ever expected to take. Jennifer Judge, SVP and Deputy General Counsel, Caliber Home Loans

She’s also twice acted as interim HR chief, requiring her to perform two roles simultaneously for months at a time. A newer addition to her responsibilities is overseeing cybersecurity and IT issues-she makes sure Caliber’s bases are covered legally and, in the event of a breach, heads up the review and investigation, working closely with the company’s CISO and CIO. Her responsibilities are broad, encompassing white collar and capital markets issues, internal investigations, real estate management, vendor contract review, and corporate governance. Judge came on board at Caliber Home Loans in 2015 as vice president and assistant general counsel and, just thirteen months later, was promoted to senior vice president and deputy general counsel. I thought there had to be a better way.” Within a week, she had an offer. On Monday morning, I asked my mentor to do lunch. “I ended up working Friday night and all weekend. But she also had two young sons and a husband who traveled extensively for work. She loved her job, and said she wasn’t looking to make a move. At the time, Judge was a senior associate at Littler Mendelson, on track to make partner. One of her former coworkers-a mentor from when she was a summer associate-had recently gone in-house at Caliber Home Loans, and called her up on a Friday to tell her about a new position for labor and employment work: Judge’s specialty. As a law firm litigator, Jennifer Judge used to think one thing when she heard about lawyers who went in-house after an opportunity just fell out of the sky: “Yeah, right.” But then it happened to her.

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