Michael R. McAlevey is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare services, comprising 186 hospitals and 2,400 ambulatory sites of care in 20 U.S. states and the UK.
In this role, McAlevey oversees HCA Healthcare’s Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Development, Marketing & Corporate Affairs, Government Relations and Information Protection & Security.
Prior to joining HCA Healthcare in 2022, McAlevey was a corporate Vice President with General Electric Company for 19 years, serving in multiple senior leadership positions. He served as the global General Counsel for GE Aerospace in Cincinnati, OH and GE Healthcare in Chicago, IL, as well as leading the Business Development functions for each of those businesses. He started his GE career in 2003 as GE’s chief corporate, securities and governance counsel in Fairfield, CT.
Following law school, McAlevey served as a law clerk to the Honorable Emmett R. Cox, United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. From 1989 to 1998 he was an associate and then partner with Alston & Bird, LLP, in Atlanta, GA, specializing in corporate and securities law. From 1998 to 2002, McAlevey served as Deputy Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance in Washington DC.
McAlevey is director of the HCA Foundation and a Fellow of the Nashville Healthcare Council. He is the former Rector of Washington & Lee University and a former adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center where he taught M&A and securities regulation.
McAlevey graduated magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University and holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.