SANTA CLARA — She may be the top lawyer for an NFL team, but Hannah Gordon did not ride into the world of pro football on her own career in sport.
“My dirty little secret is that I’m not a good athlete,” says Gordon. “I’m 5’10” so people always ask me if I played volleyball or basketball and I always wish that I could say yes, but I cannot.”
Instead, it was a long-held love for sports, and her time as an undergraduate at UCLA, that put Gordon on the path to her position as chief lawyer for the San Francisco 49ers.