Cincinnati State appoints new Human Resources executive
November 22, 2011
Lisa May Evans has been named to the new position of Director of Organizational Development & Legal Compliance at Cincinnati State. In this role, she will lead the college’s Human Resources team in the development of labor and employee relations initiatives that support the achievement of Cincinnati State’s strategic goals and objectives.
Ms. Evans comes to Cincinnati State with more than 16 years experience as a human resources executive and corporate labor and employment law attorney. Her human resources experience includes serving as Vice President, Human Resources with d. e. Foxx & Associates, and Director, Supply Chain Human Resources with Sara Lee Corporation.
Ms. Evans’ corporate law experience includes serving as senior employment counsel during her tenure with Sara Lee Corporation, and practicing with two of Cincinnati’s largest law firms, Dinsmore and Shohl and Thompson Hine. She has provided advice and counsel to business executives on a wide range of compliance, human resources and labor and employee relations matters, and represented corporations of various sizes, including Fortune 100 companies, in federal, state and administrative actions. Before coming to Cincinnati State, Ms. Evans was managing partner of her own firm, May Evans Company & Associates, LLP, and its affiliate, MECA Innovative HR Solutions, an employee relations consulting firm.
Ms. Evans began her undergraduate studies at Howard University in 1981 and earned a BA in Communications in 1985 from the University of Cincinnati. She graduated
cum laude from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law in 1994.
She has served on the YWCA Board of Directors, the Central Clinic Board of Trustees, the Steering Committee for the Greater Cincinnati Minority Counsel Program, and the Cincinnati Bar Association Nominating Committee. She resides with her family in Symmes Township.
