Sara L Peterson

Sara Peterson ’72, Principal Counsel and Manager of Insured Litigation for Bechtel Corporation, a global engineering, construction and project management company headquartered in San Francisco. Peterson joined Bechtel in 2003 and manages all insured claims and litigation, directing the work of national and local counsel handling insured matters in the U.S. and overseas. Prior to joining Bechtel, she was an associate and then partner in the litigation group at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, a leading San Francisco firm. Peterson earned her JD from Stanford University and an MA in Public Administration from University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. She received her BA from Macalester. A wine enthusiast since her days in Minnesota, Peterson and her late husband Charles Cooke planted a 12-acre Zinfandel vineyard on their 193-acre, historic property in Sonoma Valley in 1980, resulting in high-quality grapes used by Ravenswood Winery to make Cooke Vineyard Zinfandel. She resides in San Francisco and Sonoma.