Michellene Davis

Michellene Davis is executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer of RWJBarnabas Health in West Orange, N.J., and oversees the Social Impact and Community Investment, Policy Development and Governmental Affairs, Healthy Living and Community Engagement, and Global Health departments. Before joining RWJBarnabas Health in 2009, she served the State of New Jersey in several inaugural roles, including as the first African American Chief Policy Counsel and the first African American Acting New Jersey State Treasurer responsible for a state budget of over $30 billion, where she founded the NJ Department of the Treasury’s Office of Supplier Diversity and Division of Minority and Women<br>Owned Businesses. She also was the youngest executive director of the New Jersey Lottery in state history. Ms. Davis began her legal career as a trial litigator. She is an honors graduate of Seton Hall University and received her J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law. She also received an Executive Education Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Harvard Business School and a Wharton Executive Education Certificate in Social Impact Strategy.