Rhonda S Ferguson

Allstate has announced that its general counsel and chief legal officer Rhonda Ferguson died on April 17, 2022. Ferguson, 52, passed away on Easter Sunday after fighting a grueling battle with cancer over the past several years. Ferguson joined Allstate in November 2020 following a 10-year stint in private practice. She also joined the board of Exelon’s Constellation Energy earlier this year. Ferguson began her career as an associate at Thompson Hine in the mid-1990s, later becoming a partner at Baker & Hostetler, then serving in-house at Ferro Corp. and FirstEnergy Corp. She was later tapped to serve as law department leader for Union Pacific in 2016.