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2017 COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AWARD RECIPIENT









                                             CHRISTOPHER P. REYNOLDS,  a  Managing  Officer  for  Toyota
                                             Motor Corporation (TMC), functions at the global parent company as
                                             General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer and Deputy Chief Officer for the
                                             General Administrative & Human Resources Group.

                                             As Executive Vice President, Corporate Resources for Toyota Motor
                                             North  America  (TMNA),  he  is  responsible  for  the  North  American
                                             functions of Accounting & Finance, Human Resources, Government
                                             Affairs, Corporate Communications, Corporate Strategy and Legal,
                                             among  others.  Mr.  Reynolds  also  serves  as  Chief  Diversity  Officer  for
                                             TMNA.

                                             Previously, he was General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of TMNA
                                             and Group Vice President, Chief Environmental Officer and Corporate
               Secretary of Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

               Prior to joining Toyota in 2007, Mr. Reynolds was a partner at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
               in New York City.  While at the law firm, he also worked as manager of the New York office’s labor and
               employment law group. He served as a member of the firm’s advisory board and as chair of the firm’s
               diversity committee.

               Earlier, Mr. Reynolds served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division of the U.S.
               Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, and as a law clerk for Judge Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court
               of Appeals, 6th Circuit in Detroit.

               Mr. Reynolds grew up amid the auto industry in Detroit as the son of a Ford River Rouge plant worker and
               a registered nurse. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science with honors at Kalamazoo College
               and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1983. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1986.










                              The Counsel for Justice Award recognizes a prominent in-house counsel
                                         who exemplifies OAD’s commitment to justice.


                                        Prior recipients of the Counsel for Justice Award:

                   STACEY R. FRIEDMAN               ELLEN ORAN KADEN                 AUDREY STRAUSS






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