Rhonda Joy McLean is associate general counsel of Time Inc. in New York City. She conducts the legal review of and is responsible for regulatory compliance of all consumer marketing materials for the 40 magazines that Time Inc. publishes in the United States and Canada, including Time, People and ESSENCE. Prior to joining Time, McLean was the assistant regional director of the Northeast Region of the Federal Trade Commission. In 2007, she was named by The Network Journal as one of the "25 Influential Black Women in Business." She received her J.D. from Yale Law School.