Hannah Gordon is entering her eighth season with the 49ers and first as chief administrative officer and general counsel.

In her role, Gordon oversees Legal, Public Affairs, Strategic Communications, Risk Management, Community Relations, the 49ers Foundation, 49ers EDU, 49ers PREP, Fan Engagement, and the 49ers Museum. Gordon advises on all legal issues involving both the football team and Levi’s® Stadium, including events such as Super Bowl 50, Wrestlemania 31, Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour, the Copa America Centenario, and the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. In 2017, the 49ers were named the ESPN Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year and NFL Pop Warner Little Scholars Team of the Year and have been honored by local organizations such as Family and Children Services of Silicon Valley and CityTeam for their work in the community. In addition to overseeing all community impact efforts, Gordon helped form the legal structure for The Golden Heart Fund, an independent non-profit established by 49ers alumni Ronnie Lott, Ron Ferrari, Harris Barton, and Brent Jones that aides alumni in need. Gordon is active in league-wide matters and hears appeals as a member of the panel that administers the NFL Player Tuition Assistance Plan and the NFL Severance Pay Plan.

Hannah Gordon is entering her eighth season with the 49ers and first as chief administrative officer and general counsel.

In her role, Gordon oversees Legal, Public Affairs, Strategic Communications, Risk Management, Community Relations, the 49ers Foundation, 49ers EDU, 49ers PREP, Fan Engagement, and the 49ers Museum. Gordon advises on all legal issues involving both the football team and Levi’s® Stadium, including events such as Super Bowl 50, Wrestlemania 31, Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour, the Copa America Centenario, and the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. In 2017, the 49ers were named the ESPN Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year and NFL Pop Warner Little Scholars Team of the Year and have been honored by local organizations such as Family and Children Services of Silicon Valley and CityTeam for their work in the community. In addition to overseeing all community impact efforts, Gordon helped form the legal structure for The Golden Heart Fund, an independent non-profit established by 49ers alumni Ronnie Lott, Ron Ferrari, Harris Barton, and Brent Jones that aides alumni in need. Gordon is active in league-wide matters and hears appeals as a member of the panel that administers the NFL Player Tuition Assistance Plan and the NFL Severance Pay Plan.

Gordon joined the 49ers in 2011 as director of legal affairs, a role she held for four seasons, before becoming the vice president of legal and government affairs in 2015, then general counsel from 2016-17. Gordon came to the 49ers from the NFL Management Council where she worked on NFL player contracts, salary cap compliance, the 2011 NFL collective bargaining agreement, and labor issues, including the 2011 lockout. Prior to the NFL, Gordon practiced at Latham & Watkins LLP.

In 2015, Gordon was named to the Legal 500’s GC Powerlist – U.S. Rising Stars, and in 2017 received the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times’ Corporate Counsel Diversity Champion of the Year award for the work she did along with 49ers ownership on restructuring the 49ers Denise DeBartolo York Fellowship and implementing a diverse-slate interviewing policy, making the 49ers the first team in the NFL to commit to interviewing at least one woman and at least one person of color for every business opening. Gordon also serves on the Advisory Board of San Jose State’s Institute for the Study of Sport, Society, and Social Change and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation Board.

Gordon holds a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from Stanford, where she has served as a Lecturer In Law.