Hope Mehlman joined Ally as the chief legal and corporate affairs officer in December 2024. In this role, Mehlman is responsible for all regulatory and legal matters and oversees the organization’s legal, compliance, government relations, and environmental sustainability teams and the Community Reinvestment Act program.

Mehlman has more than 20 years of leadership experience in retail and commercial banking. Before joining Ally, she was Discover Financial Services’ chief legal officer, general counsel, and corporate secretary. Earlier, she served as general counsel and corporate secretary at Bank of the West; corporate secretary of BNP Paribas USA; and executive vice president, corporate secretary, chief governance officer, and deputy general counsel of Regions Financial, where she also served as senior compliance officer.

In 2024, Mehlman was named a “General Counsel of the Year” by Women, Influence & Power in Law, and in 2023, she was inducted into the Corporate Governance Hall of Fame by Governance Intelligence. She was also the recipient of the 2023 William H. Avery Award for Equal Access to Justice presented by the Legal Aid Society, Metropolitan Family Services, Chicago. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University and a contributing author of several white papers.

Mehlman holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a juris doctorate from Seton Hall University Law School, and a master of laws in taxation from New York University School of Law. Mehlman also serves as a member of the oversight committee of the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research group and is the chair of its nominating and governance committee.