D’Lonra C. Ellis is the Chief Legal Officer of the Athletics Baseball Company and the San Jose Earthquakes. She works on all of the organizations’ legal matters, including their intellectual property, real estate, employment, commercial, and government affairs matters. She also oversees the Technology departments and the transition to Sacramento the Athletics. D’Lonra is an Adjunct Professor at UC College of Law, San Francisco and Berkeley Law where she teaches Sports Law. Prior to joining the Athletics and the San Jose Earthquakes, D’Lonra was the General Counsel of Aspire Public Schools; a Director and Senior Corporate Counsel in the intellectual property, marketing and advertising group at Gap Inc.; and a litigation associate at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk and Rabkin (now Arnold & Porter).

D’Lonra currently sits on the boards of Bay Area Legal Aid, which provides direct legal services to low income residents in seven Bay Area counties; Seven Stories Institute, which runs a non-profit bookstore collective in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City; and KIPP Northern California, which operates K-12 charter schools in the Bay Area and Central Valley. She is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association and Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha International. She received her BA in Architecture, Preservation, and Planning from Columbia University and her JD from Stanford Law School.