Janet Langford Kelly

Janet Langford Kelly is senior vice president, legal, general counsel and corporate secretary for ConocoPhillips. Kelly began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable James Hunter III of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She was an associate in the corporate and securities group with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and at Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where she became partner in 1991. In 1995, she became senior vice president, secretary and general counsel at Sara Lee Corporation. Kelly joined Kellogg Company in 1999 where she was executive vice president of corporate development and administration, general counsel and secretary. Kelly joined Kmart Corporation in 2003 as senior vice president, chief administrative officer and chief compliance officer. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips in August 2006 as deputy general counsel and corporate secretary, Kelly was partner at Zelle, Hoffman, Voelbel, Mason and Gette and an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University School of Law. Kelly serves as a trustee for Columbia Funds and on the Board of Governors for the Houston Grand Opera. She previously served on the boards of United Airlines, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, United Way of Battle Creek, Grinnell College, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Evanston Hospital, and served on the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. Kelly was awarded a bachelor of arts degree in history, with honors, from Grinnell College in 1979. She earned a juris doctorate from Yale Law School in 1983.