Jason L. Brown is the president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the world’s largest global legal association for in-house counsel. He leads ACC’s strategic vision and operations, advancing its mission to support, connect, and advocate for in-house legal professionals worldwide. 

Prior to joining ACC, Jason served as vice president, general counsel, and secretary for GE Appliances, a Haier Company, based in Louisville, Kentucky. In this role, he was the company’s principal legal officer and chief compliance officer, responsible for the vision and execution of its global legal strategy. He also led all legal department activities, including corporate governance, security and crisis management, enterprise risk management, and government affairs. 

Before GE Appliances, Jason was vice president, general counsel, and secretary for Dyson, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, overseeing all legal matters for the Americas region of the British technology company known for its innovative vacuum cleaners and hair care products. Earlier, he held senior legal leadership roles at MillerCoors, where, as associate general counsel, he co-led the commercial legal team and focused on marketing, sales, and regulatory matters. 

From 2010 to 2012, Jason served as executive director of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). He also held legal leadership positions at Pepsi Beverages Company (formerly PepsiAmericas) and began his legal career in private practice at Winthrop & Weinstine in his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, before joining the litigation group at Ungaretti & Harris in Illinois. 

Jason currently serves as Board Chair of Legal Prep Charter Academy of Indianapolis, a recent expansion of the legal-themed charter school founded in Chicago, Illinois. He also serves on the Board of Visitors for the Howard University School of Law. 

Jason earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and serves as president of the Howard University School of Law International Alumni Association. 

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Mr. Katyal, the former Acting Solicitor General of the United States, focuses on appellate and complex litigation. He has argued 54 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, including the landmark 6-3 win in Learning Resources v. Trump (2026), which struck down the tariffs imposed by the President—a decision that the New York Times described as the most important ruling by the Supreme Court this century.

He has extensive experience in matters of antitrust, corporate, constitutional, securities, technology, criminal, patent, copyright, trademark, ERISA, products liability, labor, employment and tribal law. In the 2022-23 Supreme Court term, he argued five separate cases (nearly 10% of the docket), including winning the landmark voting case Moore v. Harper, which Judge Michael Luttig described as “the most important case for American democracy in the almost two and a half centuries since America’s founding.” Judge Luttig also said Mr. Katyal’s argument “was the single best oral argument I have ever heard made in the Supreme Court of the United States.” His cases include successfully striking down the Guantanamo military tribunals, successfully defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act and successfully defending the Peace Cross in Maryland. His 2017 win in Bristol Myers Squibb v. Superior Court was a landmark victory for personal jurisdiction law and his 2006 win in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was described by former Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger as “simply the most important decision on presidential power and the rule of law ever. Ever.”

From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States, where he argued several major Supreme Court cases involving a variety of issues, such as his successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, his victorious defense of former Attorney General John Ashcroft for alleged abuses in the war on terror, his unanimous victory against eight states who sued the nation's leading power plants for contributing to global warming, and a variety of other matters. As Acting Solicitor General, he was responsible for representing the federal government of the United States in all appellate matters before the US Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals throughout the nation. He served as Counsel of Record hundreds of times in the US Supreme Court. He was also the only head of the Solicitor General's office to argue a case in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on the important question of whether certain aspects of the human genome were patentable.

After graduating from Yale Law School, Mr. Katyal clerked for The Honorable Guido Calabresi of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as well as for The Honorable Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the US Supreme Court. He also served in the Deputy Attorney General's Office at the Justice Department as National Security Advisor and as Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General during 1998-1999.

Mr. Katyal is a best-selling New York Times author and has published dozens of scholarly articles in law journals (including several in the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal), as well as many op-ed articles in publications such as the New York Times and the Washington Post. He has testified numerous times before various committees of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.