Vice President
Securities and Governance; Corporate Secretary Corning, Inc.
Linda Jolly serves as vice president, Securities and Governance, and corporate secretary of Corning Incorporated. In addition to her responsibilities as the corporation’s secretary and work with the Board of Directors, Linda oversees all securities and corporate governance related legal matters for Corning. She joined Corning in 2007 as assistant secretary and division counsel. In that role she provided legal counsel to various staff functions, including treasury, accounting, tax, compensation and corporate real estate, with a focus on public company reporting and disclosure, securities law, real estate, financial and other corporate matters.
Linda is a member of the New York and Connecticut Bars, as well as the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Advisory Council. She is the incoming board president of Bampa’s House, a comfort care house in Corning, NY. She serves as the vice president of the Board of Pro Action of Steuben and Yates, Inc. She is the past chair of the Corning Incorporated Foundation, a past chair of the board of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes and former trustee of Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways.
Before joining Corning, Linda was general counsel to two privately-held companies in Syracuse, N.Y. Prior to that, she was vice president of legal compliance at Blaylock & Partners LP investment banking firm in New York City, and worked from 1998 to 2003 as an associate in the Global Finance Group of the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
From 1985 through 1997, Linda was an aircraft mechanic in the United States Air Force and New York Air National Guard. She was stationed at air bases in South Korea, Virginia, and New York, and achieved the rank of master sergeant.
Linda holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY New York at New Paltz. She received her law degree magna cum laude from New York Law School, where she was a member of the “Law Review.”
