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Jonathan P. Harmon at McGuireWoods on December 20, 2017 in Richmond, Virginia.
Jonathan P. Harmon at McGuireWoods on December 20, 2017 in Richmond, Virginia.
CHAIRMAN, McGUIREWOODS, RICHMOND
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
In 2017, McGuireWoods’ board of partners elected Harmon to be the first Black chairman of the state’s largest law firm. In the role, Harmon is the face of the firm, responsible for its big-picture strategy and vision.
In addition to leading McGuireWoods, Harmon continues to work as a trial lawyer skilled at communicating complex information to juries.
He has represented major companies including Yahoo, DuPont, CSX Transportation and UPS Ground Freight. Before becoming chairman, Harmon led the firm’s business securities litigation department.
A West Point graduate, Harmon earned his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. He served as a first lieutenant in the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Desert Storm.
In a 2020 essay published in The Wall Street Journal, Harmon detailed memories of seeing a cross burn in front of a house that sat across the street as a 14-year-old growing up in Jefferson, New York. The way his father refused to give in to anger after that incident, Harmon wrote, taught him that it’s never too late to learn not to hate. He’s spent years leading Bible studies to prisoners.
