Tracey McCants Lewis
Chief People Officer and General Counsel, Pittsburgh Penguins
2023
Tracey McCants Lewis is Chief People Officer and General Counsel for the Pittsburgh Penguins. She is the immediate past director of the Tribone Center for Clinical Legal Education at Duquesne University School of Law and tenured Associate Clinical Professor of Law. She taught the Civil Rights Clinic, Unemployment Compensation Clinic and coordinated the law school’s pro bono program. She also served as an adjunct professor of clinical legal education at Duquesne Law School where she taught the Civil Rights Clinic. The clinic focused on providing re-entry assistance to individuals with past criminal backgrounds through the legal channels of criminal record expungement and the Governor’s pardon process.
A member of the Pennsylvania State Bar, McCants Lewis was appointed to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 2013 and served until 2018. She is a former associate of K&L Gates LLP and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Max Baer of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. McCants Lewis earned her B.A. degree from Gannon University in political science and her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law.
In 2012 she received the NAACP Pittsburgh – Homer S. Brown Award for Legal Service. In 2015, she was the recipient of the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh Racial Justice Award and the Allegheny County Bar Association Lorraine M. Bittner Public Interest Attorney Award. She also received the 2017 Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh’s Ron H. Brown Community Leadership Award and the 2019 Mt. Ararat Community Activity Center, Dr. Lottie P. Edward Community Service Award. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award from the Homer S. Brown Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association. McCants Lewis was recently named to The Hockey News 2022 List of 20 Women Making Black History in Hockey.
She has served on numerous local, state, and national boards, including the ACLU Pennsylvania State Board, the ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, The Urban League Young Professionals of Greater Pittsburgh, The National Urban League Young Professionals Board of Directors, Mt. Ararat Community Activity Center. She is the current Board Chair for the August Wilson African American Cultural Center.
McCants Lewis has also been assigned to numerous committees and commissions including serving as chair of the Allegheny County Courts Administration Vision Team Committee in 2012, appointed to the City of Pittsburgh Equal Opportunity Review Commission in 2014, the Allegheny County Government Review Commission in 2015, and the Sports and Exhibition Authority’s Sports Commission in 2020. She is the proud mother of one adult son, Marcelius Lewis II.
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