President
Shiriki Cavitt Jones currently serves as a Commercial Transactions Attorney for Coyote Logistics, LLC, a UPS Company, where she is responsible for handling commercial deals and agreements, working with business stakeholders to identify and analyze potential business risks and recommending risk mitigation strategies. Shiriki also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law, teaching a Corporate Externship Class to over 200 second-year and third-year law students since 2013. Prior to her current role at Coyote, Shiriki was Corporate Counsel for Equifax Inc., focusing on negotiating and closing complex multi-party commercial and third-party agreements, executing innovative company-wide legal solutions, and advising internal business stakeholders on legal strategy including third-party vendor issues, contracts, data privacy, and security escalations.
Prior to her current role at Equifax, Shiriki has served as a Term Law Clerk for the Honorable Linda T. Walker, federal magistrate judge for the Northern District of
Georgia, Atlanta Division and as Counsel at Oldcastle, Inc., where her primary focus was on commercial contractual deals and labor and employment issues. Her extended practice covered all of the areas that the business encountered, such as negotiating and drafting commercial deals, litigation management, MSHA and OSHA matters, compliance, training and antitrust issues. Prior to working at Oldcastle, Shiriki began her practice as an Associate at Troutman Sanders LLP in the Complex Litigation Practice Group where her focus was on business litigation and product liability matters.
Shiriki is very active in her Church, serving as a Small Group Leader and former Sunday School teacher and she is also highly involved in many professional and community organizations. By way of example, since 2004, Shiriki has served in many roles within the State Bar of Georgia, including her current position on the Board of Governors (Post
30) and Chair of the COVID-19 Virtual Planning Special Committee and her past roles with the State Bar of Georgia’s Young Lawyer Division (Community Service Projects Committee Co-Chair (2006-2009); Board of Directors (2007-2014); Public Internship Program Co-Chair (2009-2011); YLD Newsletter Co-Editor (2011-2013); and YLD Signature Fundraiser Co-Chair (2011)). Shiriki has also served on the ServiceJuris Steering Committee since 2009, organizing a community service day in which more than 300 members of Atlanta’s legal community participate. Shiriki was even awarded the Community Champion award in the 2017 Corporate Counsel Awards sponsored by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Association of Corporate Counsel Georgia Chapter for her GABWA and State Bar of Georgia volunteer service.
Shiriki is excited and honored to serve as this year’s GABWA President-Elect and a Director on the GABWA Foundation, as these organizations and their missions are near and dear to her heart. Aside from Shiriki’s current roles, her GABWA leadership has included the following:
Co-Chair, Community Service Committee (2011)
Planned and orchestrated 30 Acts of Community Service to commemorate GABWA’s 30thAnniversary
Co-Chair, Inter-Bar Relations Committee (2012)
Co-Chair, Awards and Sponsorship Committee (2013) Co-Chair, Fundraising Committee (2014)
Chair, Sections Committee (2015) Chair, Sections Committee (2016) In-House Counsel Section (2017)
Member at Large and Vice President (2018) Parliamentarian (2019)
Vice President (2020)
Shiriki obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English (cum laude) in 2001 from Dartmouth College and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 2004. In her spare time, Shiriki and her husband love to travel, listen to and attend jazz concerts and cultural events and enjoy spending quality time with their family and friends.