Jamie McCourt President

Jamie McCourt was named President of the Los Angeles Dodgers on August 12, 2005, a year and a half after joining the organization as Vice Chairman. The accomplished attorney of 30 years is the highest-ranking female executive in Major League Baseball. Her position uses the passion she has for the game she loved as a child and the game that holds so much promise to unify families, connect generations, and bring people together from all walks of life. Over the past two seasons, she has restructured the front office, appointed new senior executives, and instilled a new positive can-do culture in the organization. As President, McCourt has brought business development, financial acumen, and marketing aggressiveness to the organization. Equally dramatic are the changes she has made in restoring a family atmosphere, a compassionate operation, and a fan-friendly attitude. Under her leadership, Dodgers fans have set all-time club attendance records each year. A well-educated, conscience-driven business leader, McCourt has earned both an MBA and a degree in law. She is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and New York, as well as the District Courts for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York. She first practiced law in New York, where she specialized in international and securities law. She then moved to Boston and practiced corporate, real estate, and family law. She spent the next ten years in commercial real estate development with the family business. McCourt also serves as a member of the Visiting Committee and the Dean's Advisory Board of the Sloan School at MIT. She is on the Executive Committee of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where, as a visiting professor, she teaches, "The Pursuit of Leadership: A Female Perspective." She is also a member of the Washington Speakers Bureau. After falling in love with Los Angeles immediately upon her arrival in 2004, McCourt has immersed herself in the community, and is on the boards of such organizations as the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Business Council, LA INC, the Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Sports Council, and the Dodgers Dream Foundation. In 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed her to serve on the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness. McCourt also has the distinction of being an Honorary Member of the Los Angeles Rotary Club. She is only the second woman to have been bestowed the honor in the Club's 95-year history. A renowned philanthropist, she has been honored numerous times, including receipt of the SCOPUS Award from the American Friends of Hebrew University. McCourt's community-mindedness is evident at the Dodgers, where she has transformed and enhanced its community relations operation, launched a program for women, "DodgersWIN," (Women's Initiative and Network) and expanded the outreach of the Dodgers Dream Foundation. The Dodgers Dream Foundation has four areas of emphasis, similar to the four bases on a baseball diamond. At first base, the foundation focuses on youth sports and recreation. The Dodgers have built eight Dodger Dream Fields, with more to come. At second base is her particular area of passion, literacy and education. Currently the Dodgers Dream Foundation donates more than $100,000 each year to the Jackie Robinson Foundation to fund college scholarships for 42 "Dodgers Scholars." At third base is the club's new initiative to fund cancer research, "ThinkCure," a partnership with City of Hope and Childrens Hospital LA. The Dodgers are expected to soon name their "home plate" program, one that applies to the environment. McCourt earned her B.S. degree in French from Georgetown University. She holds a diploma from La Sorbonne at the University of Paris. She received her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law and spent a semester of law school abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She then earned her M.S. (MBA) degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with a concentration in both organizational learning and corporate finance. An avid swimmer who grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, McCourt resides in Los Angeles with her husband Frank. They have four sons, Drew, Travis, Casey, and Gavin.

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