Delma Locke JD ’95 will be honored by Congressman Ro Khanna with a Hispanic Heritage Month Award for her leadership and community service in Silicon Valley. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, September 22 from noon to 1:30 pm at Washington Elementary School in the Multipurpose Room, at 270 Washington Street, Santa Clara CA 95050.
Delma Locke is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Singularity University whose mission is to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges. She handles all areas of law including corporate, employment, compliance, intellectual property and commercial transactions. Delma also serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Center in San José which provides pro bono advice and representation for workers’ rights, consumer rights, and immigration rights. She also actively mentors law students and aspiring law students from historically underrepresented communities.
Delma has practiced law for over two decades as an in-house attorney for the Silicon Valley elite. She was previously a Legal Director at Apple supporting two executive level clients who reported directly to Tim Cook, and also served as the Executive Sponsor for the Latinos At Apple employee resource group. During her tenure as a senior attorney at Sun Microsystems, she was elected Co-Chair of the Legal Diversity Council and was recognized by several bar associations and the executive management team for the forward-thinking diversity initiatives that were implemented.
While a student at Santa Clara Law Delma served as Co-Chair of La Raza Law Students. Always an active community supporter, Delma was a member of the group of Santa Clara Law students who founded the East San José Community Law Center (now the Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Center) in the early 1990s where she also successfully represented some of the Law Center’s very first clients. A proud native of San José, Delma graduated with honors from San José State University with a degree in Political Science and minor in Spanish.
