Toni Y. Hickey

Toni grew up in Colorado, earned her BS from UC Boulder, and her law degree from SMU—beating the odds since fewer than 2% of IP lawyers in the U.S. are African American. As Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, she helped launch the Patents for Humanity initiative to spur innovation that tackles global humanitarian challenges. After nine years at Cummins, where she served as Deputy General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel, Toni played a key role in the spinoff of Atmus Filtration Technologies, later becoming its Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Now, as Technology General Counsel in Residence at Mayer Brown, she’s continuing to build her career at the intersection of technology and law.