BEFORE BECOMING A LAWYER, SUZANNE RICH FOLSOM WAS THE private secretary and chief of staff to Queen Noor of Jordan. But much of her career has been spent as an in-house attorney.

Since January 2014, she has been GC, chief compliance officer and senior vice president of government affairs at U.S. Steel Corp. An American integrated steel producer, USS is headquartered in Pittsburgh and has 30,000 employees in the U.S. and abroad.