Executive leadership
Michelle Quinn
EVP, General Counsel & Secretary
Michelle Quinn is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Medtronic and a member of the Medtronic Executive Committee. She leads the global legal, compliance, government affairs, and health economics, policy, and reimbursement teams and serves as Corporate Secretary to the Medtronic Board of Directors.
Michelle has extensive experience as a corporate general counsel, chief compliance officer, and trusted advisor and business partner who provides strategic counsel and steady leadership in complex, high-stakes environments. Having successfully guided organizations through challenges and transactions, Michelle has a track record of leading high performing teams and driving business growth while mitigating enterprise risk.
Prior to joining Medtronic in July 2025, Michelle served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Becton Dickinson & Company (BD) and led a global team of lawyers, IP and compliance professionals. She joined BD in 2019 and, throughout her tenure, significantly elevated BD’s legal, ethics, compliance, and governance practices.
Before BD, Michelle was Vice President and General Counsel of North America for Sandoz Inc., a division of Novartis, and prior to that served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Catalent Pharma Solutions. She began her career as a litigator at Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
Michelle holds a Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Villanova University, where she was an editor of the Villanova Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Colgate University.
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