Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner Jane Hinton was honored by the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Awards as a nominee for Best Diversity & Inclusion Executive of the Year. The awards program took place March 23rd and recognized diversity and inclusion champions in the Los Angeles region for their ongoing efforts to celebrate and respect the unique needs and perspectives of all their team members while simultaneously creating an inclusive environment that enables diversity to thrive.

As the Office Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Leader for the firm’s Los Angeles office, Hinton has worked to promote engagement opportunities and educational programs on diversity with the goal of fostering greater awareness and understanding of important issues on social justice and racial and gender equality and promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion within the firm. She is also the point-of-contact for the Los Angeles Office Women’s Mentoring Circle and has arranged several networking events as well as more formal training on quick elevator pitches that women in law can use for value propositioning and career advancement.

With a passion to support diversity at all levels within the real estate industry and to be reflective of the community in which she practices law, she has participated in the highly acclaimed Project Destined program, a firm partnership, that brings together underprivileged diverse youth with leading executives to evaluate live real estate deals in their community and present them in a pitch competition. Hinton has participated as a judge in the LA competition and coached the JP Morgan youth team to its summer 2020 win.

All nominees, including Hinton, were featured in the March edition of the Los Angeles Business Journal.