Erin Wessling

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Elevance Health

Last Reviewed: October 1, 2026

Executive Summary

Erin Wessling has been Elevance Health’s Chief Legal Officer since August 2025, a year after joining as General Counsel. Her career has been spent in healthcare law: as an attorney at UnitedHealth Group, principal legal counsel at Medtronic, and in legal leadership roles at Health Care Service Corporation and The Cigna Group, where she was a senior vice president and chief counsel. Elevance Health ranked No. 18 on the 2026 Fortune 500.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Elevance Health since August 2025.
• General Counsel from August 2024, and Interim Chief Legal Officer from January 2025.
• Senior Vice President, Chief Counsel at The Cigna Group, until 2024.
• Vice President, Legal at Health Care Service Corporation, until 2021.
• Principal Legal Counsel at Medtronic, 2016 to 2018.

Professional Journey

Wessling was an attorney at UnitedHealth Group from 2008 to 2016 and Principal Legal Counsel at Medtronic from 2016 to 2018. She held legal leadership roles at Health Care Service Corporation from 2018, most recently Vice President, Legal, and at The Cigna Group from November 2021 to July 2024, most recently Senior Vice President, Chief Counsel.

She joined Elevance Health as General Counsel in August 2024, became interim Chief Legal Officer in January 2025 and Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer in August 2025.

Education

No first-party source read for this profile states her education.