Katherine Adams Joins Apple as General Counsel & SVP
October 06 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Bruce Sewell Retires as Apple’s General Counsel
Apple® today announced that Katherine Adams, formerly senior
vice president and general counsel of Honeywell, will join Apple as
general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Global
Security, reporting to CEO Tim Cook and serving on Apple’s
executive team.
The company also announced Bruce Sewell, who has served as
Apple’s general counsel since 2009, will be retiring at the end of
the year.
“We are thrilled to welcome Kate to our team. She’s a seasoned
leader with outstanding judgment that has worked on a wide variety
of legal cases globally. Throughout her career she’s also been an
advocate on many of the values we at Apple hold dear,” said Tim
Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Bruce has our best wishes for his retirement,
after eight years of dedicated service to Apple and a tremendously
successful career. He has tirelessly defended our IP, our
customers’ right to privacy and our values. Bruce has set a new
standard for general counsels, and I am proud to have worked with
him and proud to call him a friend.”
“Apple has had a tremendous impact on the world and it’s an
honor to join their team,” said Kate Adams. “I’m excited to help
Apple continue to grow and evolve around the world, protecting
their ideas and IP, and defending our shared values.”
“To have worked with this amazing executive team and all the
incredibly smart people at Apple, especially my colleagues in legal
and global security, has been the honor of a lifetime,” said Bruce
Sewell. “The years I have spent in this job have been the most
gratifying of my career. I’m delighted Kate is joining and I know
she will be a huge asset.”
Before joining Honeywell in 2003, Adams was a partner at Sidley
Austin LLP in New York. Earlier in her career, she served as a law
clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; as trial
attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Appellate
Section, Environment and Natural Resources division; and as law
clerk for Stephen Breyer, then chief judge of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit.
Adams earned a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from
Brown University and a law degree from the University of Chicago
Law School.
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