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Radcliffe College; Harvard Law School.
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Nicole Seligman
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She has received national attention in the United States for her representation of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings, and of President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. Seligman is the former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Sony Corporation and former President of Sony Corporation of America. She earned a Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard College (Radcliffe) in 1978, and, in 1983, a Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard Law School, where she edited the Harvard Law Review.
In between college and law school (1978-1980), she worked as associate editorial page editor for Hong Kong"s Asian Wall Street Journal (1978-1980).
After law school, she clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards at the United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1983-1984) and Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court of the United States (1984-1985). Seligman began her career in the private sector as a partner at Williams & Connolly Limited Liability Partnership in Washington, District of Columbia She appeared with Clinton when he testified before the grand jury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and she spoke on his behalf before the Senate at the impeachment trial.
Her other clients at Williams & Connolly included large media organizations such as Cable News Network (in the Operation Tailwind matter), American Broadcasting Company, and occasionally the National Enquirer (which was primarily represented by Kendall). In September 2001, she was recruited by Howard Stringer, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation of America, to become an Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
In June 2003, she became Corporate Executive Officer of the worldwide Sony Corporation.
When Stringer became Sony Corporation Chief Executive Officer in June 2005, Seligman rose to become General Counsel of that corporation, retaining the same role at Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget. She became President of Sony Corporation of America on June 27, 2012. On February 18, 2016, it was announced, that Seligman is stepping down from the positions of President of Sony Entertainment and Sony Corporation of America. In an internal memo to employees, it was stated, that she"d leave at the end of March.
Membership
In August 2013, the Council on CyberSecurity announced that Seligman is a member of the organization’s Advisory Board.
