Charisse R. Lillie has served as the CEO of CRL Consulting LLC since retiring from Comcast Corp. in 2017. She advises law firms, corporations, and nonprofits on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion and issues of corporate governance. She joined Comcast after 13 years (1992-2005) at Ballard Spahr LLP, where she was a partner in the litigation department and served as chair of the litigation department from 2002 to 2005. During her years at Comcast, she served in several roles, including senior vice president of human resources of Comcast Cable, vice president of human resources of Comcast Corp., president of the Comcast Foundation, and vice president of community investment of Comcast Corp. She was also actively involved in the diversity initiatives at Comcast and Ballard Spahr.

Ms. Lillie has extensive legal experience as a trial attorney in the US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and as an assistant US attorney in the Eastern Division of Pennsylvania . She is a former city solicitor (city attorney) for Philadelphia and has served on many civic commissions, including the MOVE Commission and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness. She is a former professor of law at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where she taught Ethics, Civil Rights Legislation, and Constitutional Law. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, the Pennsylvania Women's Forum, the Forum of Executive Women, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. She is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a member of the American Law Institute.

Ms. Lillie is a member of the boards of directors of Exelon Corp., the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Independence Health Group Inc., parent company of Independence Blue Cross and AmeriHealth Caritas. She was elected to the Exelon Corp. board after serving on the board of PECO, an Exelon company, for 13 years. She also serves on the regional advisory board of PNC Bank (Pennsylvania/Southern New Jersey/Delaware) and the corporate advisory board of KnectIQ Inc. She also serves on the boards of the Franklin Institute Science Museum and the Philadelphia Chapter of NACD. She is the chair of the board of governors of the Pyramid Club of Philadelphia. She is a former board member and board chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a former board member of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. She is also the former chair of the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and a former member of the advisory board of the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She currently serves on the Presidential Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She served on the Howard University Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2016. In November 2022, she was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro to serve on the Shapiro-Davis Transition Leadership Board. She was honored by Savoy magazine in its 2021 Most Influential Black Corporate Directors issue. In September 2023, she was selected by the NACD as an NACD 100 honoree.

The Houston, Texas, native received her BA, cum laude, from Wesleyan University. She holds a JD from the Temple Beasley School of Law and an LLM from Yale Law School.