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Sara E. Moss is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. She joined The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in 2003, and was promoted to Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in November 2004. She is responsible for the worldwide legal activities of the Company and its subsidiaries, including corporate governance, acquisitions, U.S. and global filings, government relations, intellectual property, Board matters, licensing, litigation, and global security. She serves on the Company’s Executive Management Committee and Fiduciary Investment Committee, among others.
Before joining The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Ms. Moss held the position of Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Pitney Bowes Inc., which she joined in 1996. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Ms. Moss was a senior litigation partner at Howard, Smith & Levin (now Covington & Burling), a New York City-based law firm. From 1978 to 1981, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division in the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted a wide range of federal cases. Prior to that, she practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell and was a law clerk for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, a U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of New York. Ms. Moss is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts and New York University Law School.
Ms. Moss has received the Anti-Defamation League Human Relations Award, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund "Aiming High" Award, the Minority Corporate Counsel Diversity Award and the Pro Bono Partnership Outstanding Contribution Award. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, the Second Circuit Judicial Conference Committee and the Executive Committee of the Corporate General Counsel Section of the American Bar Association. She has taught trial advocacy at Harvard Law School and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.She lives in New York City with her four children. | 