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Toni Jaeger-Fine Toni Jaeger-Fine is principal of Jaeger-Fine Consulting, which provides services to attorneys, law firms, and other organizations on topics including talent management, development, and retention; diversity, equity, and inclusion; being supervised effectively; wellbeing; and a range of other attitudes and behaviors that lead to success. Jaeger-Fine also is Senior Counselor at Fordham Law School, at which she served as Assistant Dean for more than 16 years. Jaeger-Fine is the author of numerous articles on a wide range of topics published in the United States and abroad, as well as several books, including The U.S. Legal System: The Basics (Carolina Academic Press) and Becoming a Lawyer: Discovering and Defining Your Professional Persona (West Academic. Jaeger-Fine is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Binghamton University and a cum laude graduate of Duke Law School. She teaches and lectures widely in the U.S. and around the world.
Ellie Krug In 2009, when she was a civil trial attorney in Cedar Rapids with 100+ trials, Ellen (Ellie) Krug transitioned from male to female; she later became one of the few attorneys nationally to try jury cases in separate genders. The author of Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change (2013), Ellie has trained on diversity and inclusion to court systems, law firms, Fortune 100 corporations, and colleges/universities on more than 1000 occasions. A hopeless idealist, Ellie has presented her inclusivity training, Gray Area Thinking®, across the country. Ellie is the recipient of a number of awards and recognition, including the 2023 Stonewall Award from the American Bar Association, a 2019 OutFront Minnesota Legacy Award, and Advocate Magazine naming Ellie as one of “25 Legal Advocates Fighting for Trans Rights.” She is also a columnist for Minnesota Women’s Press and a weekly radio host on AM950 radio, where her 250+ episodes of “Ellie 2.0 Radio” highlight idealism and idealists working to make the world better for all humans. Her monthly e-newsletter, The Ripple, reaches 9000+ readers and can be found at www.elliekrug.com . In November 2022, Ellie was elected to her local school board in a rural-urban county outside the Twin Cities, making her one of a handful of transgender school board members in America.  Christian Rutherford Christian Rutherford is an attorney with New York City boutique litigation law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg. He is graduate of Brown University, has an M.P.A. in Nonprofit Management from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Christian worked in Nonprofit Development for several NYC institutions, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and Big Brothers/Big Sister of NYC. Prior to joining Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, Christian was an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton, worked as an attorney at Axiom Law and was a staff attorney at Proskauer Rose. He also spent several years working as a Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department, Labor and Employment Division. While at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, Christian has served as a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and has taken a strong lead in diversity and inclusion efforts including founding the firm’s LGTQIA+ Affinity group; coordinating Hispanic Heritage, Black History and Pride Months; and coordinating programming for the firm’s First-Generation Professionals Affinity Group.
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