- Susan Lester
- Assistant General Counsel – Baby & Childcare, North America / Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Susan Lester is Assistant General Counsel of Baby & Childcare with Kimberly-Clark North America where she provides counsel and thought leadership on all aspects of advertising and innovation across Huggies Diapers, Huggies Wipes, and Childcare products.
Previously, Susan held roles in the ESG space as Vice President of ESG at Otis Worldwide Corporation and Global ESG Senior Counsel at McDonald’s Corporation. In those roles, she led ESG legal teams and provided strategic guidance on ESG regulations, governance, disclosures, and communications. Before jumping into the ESG space, Susan was a Senior Counsel on McDonald’s Marketing & IP team for over 7 years working on national campaigns, promotions, sweepstakes, licensing agreements, brand commitments, and ingredient/food claims.
In addition to providing solution oriented strategic legal advice on advertising, intellectual property, FTC, and sustainability matters, she also has a passion for legal tech, professional development of talent, and pro bono work, and has participated in a variety of committees on those topics.
Prior to moving in-house, she worked as an attorney in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis focusing on Intellectual Property, Litigation, and at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath focusing on IP transactions.
She received her Law Degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was an editor of the Law Review. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for undergrad as well, graduating with the distinction of Bronze Tablet, given to the top 3% of the graduating class.