Regina A. Petty

• San Diego Business Journal, San Diego’s Top 500 (2022)
• San Diego Business Journal, Leaders in Law Awards (2022)
• Honored as Diversity Equity and Inclusion Executive of the Year by HRO Today (2022)
• Recognized in the Lifetime Achievement: Law Firm category by Corporate Counsel’s Women, Influence & Power in Law (2022)
• Benchmark Litigation - Labor & Employment Star (2023-2024)
• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (2021-2026)
• Listed in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers (2021, 2022, 2024-2026)

• Selected for inclusion in The San Diego Business Journal’s Women of Influence: Top 50 Over 50 (2022)

• Selected to the National Black Lawyers Top 100 (2022)
• Selected for inclusion in San Diego Super Lawyers

Professional Activities

Regina is a Master in the Louis Welsh American Inn of Court and chairs the CLE Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel. She is a member of the National Bar Association, the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association and the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys. In addition to being a past faculty member for the American Bar Association TIPS Trial Academy and for the IADC Trial Academy, Regina is a frequent speaker for and member of the Defense Research Institute, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers as well as the Litigation and Labor & Employment Law sections of the State Bar of California and of the ABA. The International Association of Defense Counsel named Regina chair of its 2010 CLE Committee.

Community Activities

• Regina currently serves on the board of directors of the American Heart Association. 
• She is a member of the “Go Red for Women” Executive Committee.  She also serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit hospital Sharp Healthcare.
• She is a member of the Audit Committee and chairs the Litigation Committee.
  Regina is a member of the Redcoat Committee of the San Diego Bowl Game Association (National University Holiday Bowl and the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl).
• She is a past chair of the City of San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium Advisory Board and previously served on the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce's board of directors and executive committee.
• Regina chaired the Chamber's 1998 Insights World Conference.
• She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta.