Colleen Mullen Goff once dreamed of a Foreign Service career, but changed her mind after college. Instead, she went to law school with plans to become a tax attorney at a firm. But Goff landed a clerkship at H.B. Zachry Co. in San Antonio in 1983 while attending St. Mary’s University School of Law, and she’s still at the company nearly 30 years later.
Goff, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Zachry Holdings Inc., has spent her entire legal career with the company. She says, back in 1984, when H.B. Zachry offered her a permanent job, she really hadn’t considered an in-house career. But the Texas economy was struggling at the time, so she took the position because she really liked the lawyers at the company and knew it well because she had grown up in San Antonio.
