Lisa Jackson, senior vice chairman of atmosphere, coverage and social initiatives at Apple Inc., speaks through the TechCrunch Disrupt 2017 in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.
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Apple’s normal counsel, Kate Adams, and its vice chairman for atmosphere, coverage, and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson, will retire from Apple, the corporate introduced on Thursday.
Apple mentioned that Jennifer Newstead would change into Apple’s new normal counsel in March subsequent yr and that Jackson’s authorities affairs employees would report back to her.
The 2 executives beforehand reported to Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner and characterize the most recent signal that Apple’s senior management is seeing a slew of exits.
In current weeks, Apple’s head software program designer mentioned he was leaving to go to Meta, Apple mentioned that its AI chief was retiring, and Apple’s chief working officer retired.
Adams joined Apple and have become normal counsel in 2017, and oversaw authorized issues together with litigation, international safety, and the corporate’s privateness initiatives. Underneath Adams, Apple grappled with rising antitrust scrutiny and regulation around the globe, together with main lawsuits within the U.S. over the iPhone App Retailer’s restrictions and charges.
Jackson joined Apple in 2013, and led the corporate’s variety applications in addition to a lot of its coverage work in Washington, D.C.
Previous to becoming a member of Apple in 2013, she spent 4 years as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Safety Company, a place she was appointed to by President Barack Obama.
Jackson is a Democrat, and her retirement exhibits a shift in Apple’s method to Washington DC within the second Trump administration. Apple has confronted elevated tariffs from the Trump administration, and Cook dinner has met with President Trump a number of instances to tout the corporate’s American manufacturing plans in an effort to restrict coverage modifications that would harm the corporate.
She additionally led Apple’s environmental initiatives.
In her position, Jackson “targeted on lowering greenhouse gases, defending air and water high quality, stopping publicity to poisonous contamination, and increasing outreach to communities on environmental points,” in response to her bio on Apple’s web site.
Jackson was instrumental in Apple’s launch of its Racial Fairness and Justice Initiative following the 2020 homicide of George Floyd.
She then helped develop the corporate’s fairness and justice efforts to different nations, together with the U.Ok., Mexico and New Zealand, in response to a report on the initiative in 2023.
“At Apple, we pledge that our resolve won’t fade,” Jackson wrote in a piece of that report. “We can’t delay motion. We are going to work, every day, on the pressing job of advancing fairness.”
Jackson additionally accompanied Cook dinner to a number of official features in Washington, together with state dinners.
Since 2019, Newstead, who will change into Apple’s high lawyer, has overseen Meta’s authorized and regulatory issues pertaining to its household of apps like Fb, Instagram, WhatsApp and others.
Previous to her stint on the social media big, Newstead served as a Trump-appointed authorized advisor on the State Division through the president’s first administration in 2019.
Earlier than that, she was a companion at Davis Polk & Wardell and a normal counsel of the White Home Workplace of Administration and Finances, amongst different roles within the U.S. authorities.
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