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Storrow Gordon is executive vice president and general counsel responsible for directing all aspects of EDS’ global legal operations. This includes oversight for ethics and compliance employee relations immigration and investigations. She reports directly to Chairman and CEO Mike Jordan and serves as a member of EDS’ Executive Committee.
Gordon joined EDS in 1991 as a senior attorney. Within a year she was promoted to legal manager Corporate Acquisitions and Finance in which she was responsible for legal support for corporate acquisitions dispositions equity investments and joint ventures. This included taking a lead role in the split-off of EDS from General Motors in 1996.
Gordon served as secretary to the governance committee of the EDS board of directors beginning in 1996 and was appointed director of EDS board operations in 1999.
In 2000 Gordon was promoted to deputy general counsel a position she held until 2005. In this capacity she was the chief governance counsel responsible for ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley New York Stock Exchange governance reforms and related matters. She also provided oversight to a number of legal functions. Gordon was responsible for various aspects of the company’s legal support strategy and the leadership of the legal department comprising more than 400 employees in 39 locations.
She began her career with the law firm of Johnson & Wortley P.C. where she rose to the position of partner corporate section.
Gordon who was chosen as Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly magazine in 2004 and 2005 earned her law degree from Southern Methodist University and holds a B.A. degree from the University of Texas. She and her husband have two grown children. | 