During the 2023 Spring Meeting, we are pleased to honor Deborah P. Majoras for her life of achievement and service to the cause of promoting competition and protecting consumers.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award
Deborah Majoras
Deborah P. Majoras is the former Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of The Procter & Gamble Company. She joined P&G in 2008 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. From 2010 to July 2022, she served as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of P&G, and form July 2022 to September 2022, when she retired, she served as President and Adviser to the CEO at P&G. Previously she served as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2004 until 2008.
From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Majoras was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. She joined the law firm of Jones Day in 1991, where she became a partner in 1999. Ms. Majoras serves the board of American Express Company. She also serves on the boards of The First Tee Foundation, United States Golf Association, The Christ Hospital Health Network, the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati and Westminster College.
2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards
During the 2022 Spring Meeting, we honored Hon. Diane P. Wood (U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit) and Michael D. Hausfeld (Hausfeld LLP) for their lives of achievement and service to the cause of promoting competition and protecting consumers. Watch the videos to hear remarks from colleagues on how each honoree is leaving their mark on the antitrust field.
Diane P. Wood
Appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit by President William J. Clinton on June 30, 1995; she became chief judge on October 1, 2013. Judge Wood’s areas of scholarly interest include antitrust law, international trade and business, and federal civil procedure. She has published widely in all three areas. Representative works include the antitrust casebook Trade Regulation, with Robert Pitofsky and Harvey Goldschmid (4th ed. 1997; 5th ed. 2003; 6th ed. 2010); Merger Cases in the Real World: A Study of Merger Control Procedures (with Richard Whish, OECD 1994) (a study of transnational merger regulation); “‘Unfair’ Trade Injury: A Competition-Based Approach,” 41 Stanford L. Rev. 1153 (1989); and “Our 18th Century Constitution in the 21st Century World,” 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1079 (2005). In addition, she has presented papers for the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France; and for many other audiences around the world, including in Australia, Canada, China, France, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Judge Wood has also worked on law reform projects in the United States, particularly through the American Bar Association and the Brookings Institution Project on Civil Justice Reform. She was instrumental in developing the University of Chicago’s first policy on sexual harassment. Judge Wood sits on the council of the American Law Institute. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairs its council. For many years, she was also a member of the American Bar Association, where she served on the governing councils of the ABA’s section of antitrust law and its section of international law and practice. Since joining the court, she has continued to teach at the University of Chicago Law School as a senior lecturer.
Michael D. Hausfeld
Michael has an abiding interest in social reform, and has been a part of some of the most groundbreaking cases in that arena both in the U.S. and around the world. Michael was among the first lawyers in the U.S. to assert that sexual harassment was a form of discrimination prohibited by Title VII, and he successfully tried the first case establishing that principle. He has represented Native Alaskans whose lives were affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and later negotiated a then-historic $176 million settlement from Texaco, Inc. in a racial-bias discrimination case. In Friedman v. Union Bank of Switzerland, Michael represented a class of Holocaust victims whose assets were wrongfully retained by private Swiss banks during and after World War II. The case raised novel issues of international banking law and international human rights law. In a separate case, he also successfully represented the Republic of Poland, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Ukraine and the Russian Federation on issues of slave and forced labor for both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
He was a member of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Transition Taskforce, which advised the incoming Obama Administration, and has chaired the ABA’s Civil Redress Committee. Michael has been co-lead counsel in antitrust cases against manufacturers of genetically engineered foods, managed healthcare companies, bulk vitamin manufacturers, technology companies, and the world’s largest banking institutions. He is involved in ongoing investigations of antitrust cases abroad and pioneering efforts to enforce competition laws globally.