11th Annual Women Spanning the Globe
150 150 Sheela Murthy

The 11th Annual Women Spanning the Globe Leadership Conference was held June 6, 2017, at Baltimore’s Visionary Arts Museum. This year’s conference is entitled, “Navigating Career, Family & the World.” Always working toward diversity and inclusion, there is also a session from “Men Who Get It.” Sheela Murthy offers the introduction this year. This is…

Outgoing Chair of Maryland Chamber of Commerce
150 150 Sheela Murthy

At the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Hall of Fame, on May 17th, 2017, outgoing chair, Sheela Murthy, conducted the board meeting and handed over the gavel to the incoming Chairman of the Board. The evening’s events include Murthy’s reflections on her two-year term, and serving as emcee in honor of three inductees…

Murthy Law Firm Lights Up Owings Mills
150 150 Sheela Murthy

Twenty-three years after opening its doors in Owings Mills, Maryland, the Murthy Law Firm lights up the night sky. An international leader in the practice of U.S. immigration law, the firm has been in the same office building in the Owings Mills Town Center since 1994, experiencing continued growth and success. In conjunction with the…

Harvard Law School Reunion – April 2017
150 150 Sheela Murthy

Sheela Murthy returned to her old stomping grounds on the Harvard Law School campus April 7-9, 2017, for a reunion of members of the classes of 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012. The largest reunion in the law school’s history, classmates reconnected to reminisce, network, and discuss current topics on their minds. Murthy served…

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

Helen Keller
Who is Sheela Murthy

“After finding the courage to leave everything and everyone I knew, I am propelled as an immigrant to make the most of the opportunities before me.”

Who is Sheela Murthy?

Sheela Murthy is a lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and speaker, perhaps best known as founder and president of the Owings Mills, Maryland based Murthy Law Firm, which has been ranked as one of the world’s leading U.S. immigration law firms.

A native of India, Murthy and her husband, photographer and media specialist Vasant Nayak, established the MurthyNAYAK Foundation to channel their philanthropic contributions to nonprofits that serve the needs of women, children, and immigrants, particularly in education and health care.

Sheela Murthy is featured in ZeeTV’s Those Who Made It.

Recent Posts