Management Team
Name: Russell C. Deyo
Biography: Russell C. Deyo is Vice President, General Counsel of Johnson & Johnson and a member of the Executive Committee, the principal management group responsible for the Company's operations. In addition to the Law Department, the corporate groups supporting health care compliance, privacy, and government affairs and policy report to him.
Prior to his appointment as General Counsel in April 2004, Mr. Deyo was Corporate Vice President, Administration, for Johnson & Johnson. He was named to this post and to the Executive Committee in October 1996.
Mr. Deyo was Associate General Counsel of Johnson & Johnson for five years and served as a member of the management boards of Personal Products Company, Advanced Care Products and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical.
Mr. Deyo joined Johnson & Johnson as a general attorney in 1985, after a federal judicial clerkship, two years of private practice with a New York law firm and eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey. In his last three years with that office, he was Chief of the Special Prosecutions (Public Corruption) unit, and received a Special Commendation for Outstanding Service from the Attorney General of the United States.
Mr. Deyo serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for Aid to Education, and on the Business Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is chair of the Corporate Board of Advisors of the National Council of LaRaza, and a member of the Association of General Counsel.
A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr. Deyo received his law degree in 1975 from Georgetown University Law Center.
