Head of Policy Engagement and Advocacy
National Corporate Governance Society
Class Year: 1999
Shawn Filippi JD’99 has spent over 25 years advising boards of directors, CEOs, and executive teams through complex legal, regulatory, governance, compliance, and business issues. She currently serves as Head of Policy Engagement and Advocacy at the National Society for Corporate Governance, where she also chairs the national Small- and Mid-Cap Public Company Committee. In those roles she engages in advocacy work with the SEC and legislative, regulatory, judicial, and other policy-making and standard-setting entities on behalf of public and complex private companies nationally.
Prior to that, Shawn spent over a decade as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary of two public companies–a utility holding company with a presence in six states and a large operating utility company in the Pacific Northwest. During her tenure she built and led the Business Integrity and Compliance Team, which was awarded the best Small and Mid-Cap Ethics and Compliance program by Governance Intelligence in 2018 and achieved its inaugural designation of World’s Most Ethical Companies® in 2022, and re-earned that designation in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025. Before her appointment as an executive officer, she held several legal leadership roles in the same company supporting all aspects of the business.
Prior to her in-house practice, Shawn was an attorney at Stoel Rives LLP, focusing her practice on corporate, securities and finance, and mergers and acquisitions. She started her career clerking in the Special Litigation Unit of Oregon Department of Justice, and has also been a policy researcher at Public Policy Research, and an instructor at Portland State University. Shawn is a Certified Corporate Governance Professional, a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, and a Modern Diligent 100 governance award recipient.
Shawn currently serves as a board member of the Lewis & Clark Law School Board of Visitors and the Lewis & Clark Law School Center for Business Law and Leadership. She previously served on the Lewis & Clark Law School Board of Alumni, leading the board as president from 2001 to 2006. In addition to her work at Lewis & Clark Law School boards, she is a board member of the KARES Foundation, a national nonprofit focused on an ultra-rare neurodevelopmental genetic condition. She is also a board member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society for Corporate Governance and serves on the Advisory Counsel for the PDX Corporate Counsel Forums. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, and for many years as a Trustee of the Oregon Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Shawn received her Bachelor of Science as a dual major, cum laude from Kansas State University, attended a Master’s program (ABT) in Communications Studies at Portland State University, and received her JD from Lewis & Clark Law School, magna cum laude, with a certificate in Business Law.