Deborah Majoras currently serves on several boards of directors, including for the American Express Co., which she joined in 2022, and for Valero Energy Corp., where she led the Nominating, Governance and Public Policy Committee from 2015-2022, and the Sustainability and Public Policy Committee from 2022 to the present. Majoras recently joined the board of Brunswick Group, a leading global critical issues advisory firm, as a non-executive director. She also is a member of the executive committee of the United States Golf Association, for which she chairs the Equipment Standards, Governance and Nominating Committees. Other current nonprofit board service includes The First Tee Foundation, The Christ Hospital Health Network and Westminster College.
Majoras recently retired from Procter & Gamble Co., where she spent more than 12 years as the company’s chief legal officer and secretary, leading a global organization of some 500 people responsible for the broad scope of legal, compliance and governance; government relations and public policy; and brand protection. While at P&G, she partnered with colleagues on the Global Leadership Council, the Ethics and Compliance Council, the Corporate Quality Assurance Council, the Equality and Inclusion Council, and the Environmental Stewardship Council. She co-founded the company’s ESG (environmental, social and governance) initiative and co-led a revived global wellness initiative.
Prior to P&G, Majoras served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 2004-08, leading an independent enforcement agency of roughly 1,100 employees with consumer protection and antitrust jurisdiction over most sectors of the economy. She co-led, with the attorney general of the United States, the president’s Identity Theft Task Force. From 2001-03, Majoras was the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, leading the division’s civil and regulatory antitrust enforcement programs. Prior to government service, Majoras was a partner at international law firm Jones Day, and before that, a law clerk to Judge Stanley S. Harris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Majoras received the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023, the Burton “Legends in Law” Award and the Cincinnati Business Courier’s “Women Who Mean Business” in 2020, National Law Journal’s “Top 50 General Counsel” in 2014, the RSA Security Solutions Award for Excellence in Public Policy in 2007 and Washingtonian’s “100 Most Powerful Women in Washington” in 2006.
Majoras received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law (Order of the Coif) in 1989 and her B.A. from Westminster College, summa cum laude, in 1985.
Majoras resides in McLean, Virginia, with her husband, John, and has three grown stepchildren and three grandchildren.