Hildegarde Aguinaldo

Hildegarde Aguinaldo currently serves as Senior Director & Assistant General Counsel for DaVita Inc., an international healthcare company with over 2,500 clinics and 200,000 patients, where she leads a talented team of litigators and legal professionals handling matters nationwide. There, has held key roles in equity efforts, including having developed transformational mission statements, served on interdisciplinary taskforces, and deployed equity training with enterprise impact.In addition to health care and the law, Ms. Aguinaldo’s longest commitment has been to advocate for the Filipino American community. From 2014 to 2015, following over a decade of involvement in the organization, she served as the President of the Philippine American Bar Association (PABA), where she sharpened PABA’s efforts to advance judicial diversity and promote civic engagement. In 2018, NAPABA recognized Ms. Aguinaldo as one of its "Best Lawyers Under 40". She currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance, where she continues her long-standing work to celebrate the contributions of the Asian American community and empowering students and attorneys to advance in the legal profession.