Amy Tovar serves as Chief Legal Officer for the San Francisco Giants, overseeing the legal affairs for the organization. In her tenth season, she is responsible for the Giants’ legal operations, including corporate governance, media rights, labor and employment, litigation, intellectual property, and real estate. Tovar has played a leadership role on strategic business transactions ranging from ballpark naming rights to the raising of investor capital. She sits on MLB’s Insurance Task Force and Large Claims Committee, and is a member of the Giants’ DE&I Council.

Prior to joining the Giants, Tovar served in the Obama Administration at the Department of Transportation as Associate General Counsel; worked as a litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson in San Francisco; and clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. She is on the board of directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches sports law at Stanford Law School. She is a founding investor in the professional women’s soccer team Bay FC.

A Peninsula native, Tovar attended Stanford University and Stanford Law School, and now lives in Burlingame with her husband, Ben, and children, Jack and Carolina.