COLUMBUS, OH. / AGILITYPR.NEWS / June 09, 2025 / Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is pleased to announce the arrival of Marilyn McClure-Demers to its Columbus office. McClure-Demers joins the firm as a Member of the Business Department and will take on the Office Managing Member role after a transition period, succeeding Kevin West who has served in that role for the past 12 years. Additionally, McClure-Demers will serve as Assistant General Counsel to the firm.

As Office Managing Member, McClure-Demers will focus on the strategic growth of the Columbus office, growing the attorney ranks, and expanding the firm’s Ohio client base. She will also lead efforts to launch a national Outside General Counsel practice to provide strategic, trustworthy, and practical legal counsel to mid-sized businesses.

“We are very pleased that Marilyn is joining Steptoe & Johnson, and we are honored that she has chosen our firm for the next chapter of her career,” said CEO Christopher L. Slaughter. “She is a highly accomplished lawyer with an impressive record marked by leadership roles in private practice, at major corporations, and in the non-profit sector. Marilyn is well regarded in the Columbus and broader Ohio business and legal communities.  Her roots run deep in West Virginia and in our firm. All that makes her uniquely suited to take on a leadership role at Steptoe & Johnson. Many of us, myself included, feel like she is family and is coming home.”

McClure-Demers most recently served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Nationwide Insurance, a Fortune 100 company, where she was responsible for the strategic legal leadership of employment, corporate, intellectual property, class action, financial services litigation, and the discovery management center of excellence. Prior to her role at Nationwide, she served as Employment Law Counsel at Rite Aid Corporation.

In addition to her legal acumen, McClure-Demers is a humanitarian, volunteer, and advocate of justice initiatives in the legal profession and the community. She serves on the boards of numerous community organizations and has been recognized by Columbus Business First as a Woman of Influence – Trailblazer. In recognition of her dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and she serves on the board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She was recently elected as a Fellow of the West Virginia Bar Foundation. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Tiffany Circle National Council for the American Red Cross, was founder and inaugural chair of the United Way Women’s Leadership Network for Delaware County, Ohio, and served as Board Chair of the United Way of Delaware County, Ohio.

McClure-Demers earned her B.A. and her J.D. from West Virginia University where she serves as Chair of the WVU Alumni Association Board of Directors and served on the WVU College of Law Visiting Committee. She is admitted to practice in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and in several federal courts including several U.S. Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.