Ann Gavzy and Audrey Murphy Recognized on the NJBIZ Law Power 50 List

Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce two of its executives are featured on this year’s NJBIZ Law Power 50 list. Ann B. Gavzy, Esq., executive vice president and chief legal officer, Transactions and Corporate Services for Hackensack Meridian Health, and Audrey Murphy, Esq., MSN, RN, executive vice president and chief legal officer, Operations for Hackensack Meridian Health, were selected for making a significant impact through their remarkable achievements.

“I want to offer my congratulations on these well-deserved recognitions,” said Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. “Ann Gavzy and Audrey Murphy are essential to our leadership team, helping to ensure that we advance our mission to transform health care and serve as leaders of positive change.”

Prior to her current role, Ms. Gavzy served as senior vice president of Legal Affairs and General Counsel for Meridian Health System, responsible for initiating, overseeing, and coordinating all legal services for the health system, and guiding the health system through the evolving health care landscape. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Roundtable, a limited membership group of chief legal officers from around the country, and a recipient of the NJBIZ 50 Best Women in Business Award and the NJBIZ General Counsel of the Year Award. Ms. Gavzy has been named a First Chair Award Recipient, which recognizes America’s most innovative and accomplished in-house counsel for their achievements and contributions to the legal community.

Ms. Murphy has played an integral role in the legal aspects of some of the health network’s most significant endeavors, employing dual expertise as an attorney and as a nurse, navigating high-level strategic operations with a particular understanding of patient care. She was honored at Pace University’s Spirit of Pace Awards ceremony and was the recipient of an Innovator Award, which pays tribute to individuals or groups whose work exemplifies positive change and self-empowerment and was recently awarded General Counsel of the Year for Healthcare by NJBIZ and was honored by NJBIZ among its Best 50 Women in Business. Ms. Murphy has also been awarded New Jersey Law Journal In-House Counsel of the Year.

According to NJBIZ, the entire state benefits from the high quality of work turned in by the attorneys on this list. Whether they are in public service or private practice, belong to firms or work in-house, litigators or negotiators, these professionals recognized by NJBIZ help set the agenda for New Jersey.