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Mr. Mielke has overall responsibility for the company’s legal affairs, government relations and internal audit activities.
Before assuming his current role, Mr. Mielke has served Kimberly-Clark in various legal positions, including Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel and as Vice President and Chief Counsel for the company’s North Atlantic consumer businesses.
Mr. Mielke joined Kimberly-Clark in 1998 and has extensive U.S. and international patent, trademark and general litigation experience. Before joining the company, he was a patent attorney with the Los Angeles law firm of Spensley, Horn, Jubas and Lubitz and with Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mi.
He earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry and business from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota in 1980, and graduated cum laude with a juris doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1983.
Mr. Mielke and his family reside in the Dallas area. | 