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A native of Evansville, Ind., Mr. Todd graduated from Ohio State University in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in business administration and earned law degrees from Valparaiso (Ind.) University in 1970 and the University of Virginia in 1976.
Following a six-year stint in the U.S. Army, where he served as an attorney with the rank of captain, he joined U. S. Steel’s Law Department at Pittsburgh headquarters in 1976. Mr. Todd was promoted to general attorney in 1982.
In 1985, he was transferred to U. S. Steel’s Midwest region office in Chicago, where he was promoted to senior general attorney the following year. He returned to Pittsburgh as senior general attorney in 1989.
Mr. Todd was given a leave to return to active military duty in March 1991, during the Persian Gulf War. He resumed his U. S. Steel career in September 1991, upon his return from active duty. He was named assistant general counsel in 1995, was elected general counsel for the former U. S. Steel Group of USX Corporation in 1998, and was elected vice president-law in 2002. In June 2003, he was assigned to his current position, vice president-law and environmental affairs.
Throughout his U. S. Steel career, Mr. Todd has worked extensively on environmental and international trade legal matters, and also has focused on real estate, asset redeployment and other areas.
He retired from the U.S. Army Reserve in 1996 with the rank of colonel. Mr. Todd is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Corporate Counsel Association, and the Allegheny County Bar Association (Pittsburgh). | 