Bruce Sewell

Durward Bruce Sewell was the Senior VP of Legal and Global Security at Apple Inc. as well as its General Counsel, reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook.

Education
Sewell received his J.D. from George Washington University in 1986, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Lancaster, in the United Kingdom, in 1979. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1986 and to the Washington D.C. Bar in 1987. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Career
Sewell was a partner in the litigation firm of Brown & Bain P.C. He joined Intel in 1995 as a senior attorney assigned to counsel various business groups in areas such as antitrust compliance, licensing and intellectual property. In 2001, Sewell was promoted to vice president and deputy general counsel, managing Intel’s litigation portfolio, and handled corporate transactions including M&A activities. At Intel, he was responsible for leading all of Intel’s legal, corporate affairs and corporate social responsibility programs, managing attorneys and policy professionals located in over 30 countries around the world.

Sewell left Intel to join Apple in September 2009. Sewell retired from Apple in December 2017, and became a lecturer at Columbia Law School. He was succeeded by Katherine Adams, a newly appointed member of the team.