Diane L. Balma

Diane graduated from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, CA in 1991. She began her career practicing insurance defense litigation in the Bay Area when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the young age of 30. Diane harnessed her skills as a litigator and her experience as a cancer survivor to become one of the nation's leading public policy advocates--first representing plaintiffs in insurance bad faith matters, followed by her tenure as the first vice president of public policy and in-house legal counsel for Susan G.Komen for the Cure; and, subsequently,...