Michellene Davis
Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at RWJBarnabas Health
Ms. Davis leads Social Impact and Community Investment across the System.
She oversees the areas of Policy Development and Governmental and External
Affairs, Healthy Living and Community and Employee Wellness and Engagement,
and Global Health. She is the creator of the RWJBarnabas Health Women's
Leadership Alliance, the Young Professional Advisory Council and the Corporate
Institute for Internship. RWJBarnabas Health is the largest integrated
healthcare delivery system in the state of New Jersey, and Ms. Davis is
the first woman and the first person of color to ever ascend to the position
of Executive Vice President in its 152 year history. Ms. Davis informs
the strategic policy decisions of the System and strengthens the System's
position with state and federal elected officials and agencies. Before
joining RWJBarnabas Health in 2009, Ms. Davis served as Chief Policy Counsel
to former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, where she was the first African
American to serve in this position. She was the first African American
and only the second women to serve as Acting New Jersey State Treasurer
responsible for a state budget of over $30 billion dollars. She was the
youngest person to serve as Executive Director of the New Jersey Lottery
in state history and served as a senior policy advisor in the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services. Ms. Davis has a proven record
of supporting the equitable building of community wealth throughout her
career and, while Acting State Treasurer of New Jersey, founded the New
Jersey Department of the Treasury's Office of Supplier Diversity and Division
of Minority and Women Owned Businesses. She is also active in civic engagement
in the local and the global community. She is the President Emeritus of
the Executive Women of New Jersey, the state's premier organization for
senior level executive women in business and is Chair of Academic Affairs
for the Joint Board of Rutgers-Rowan Universities; Treasurer of the New
Jersey Performing Arts Center Women's Association; and is on the boards
of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association; Rutgers Institute for Women's
Leadership; New Jersey Bipartisan Coalition for Women's Appointments;
Caucus Educational Trust and the New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus Foundation.
Nationally, she serves on the Boards of The Democracy Collaborative and
The Root Cause Coalition and on the Health Anchor Network Founding Design
Team; Root Cause Coalition National Advisory Board and United Way ALICE
National and Building Healthy Places Advisory Councils. Globally, is a
member of the Board of Directors of the International Black Women’s
Public Policy Institute. She began her legal career as a trial litigator,
is an Honors graduate of Seton Hall University and holds a Juris Doctorate
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.