The Corporation for Public Broadcasting named Evan Slavitt as senior vice president and general counsel.
He replaces Westwood Smithers Jr., who has been the organization’s chief legal officer since 2005, who is retiring. Slavitt starts March 11.
CPB President/CEO Patricia Harrison called Slavitt “an accomplished attorney with decades of experience who will be of great value to CPB as we steward the federal appropriation for public media.”
Slavitt began his legal career in the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and later worked for DOJ as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
He was in private practice starting in 1987, working for three Massachusetts law firms. He was a founding member of Bodoff and Slavitt LLP.
He is former vice president for business and legal affairs and then senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Kyocera AVX Corp. Most recently he was chief legal officer of Paper Excellence, a pulp and paper product manufacturer.
Slavitt is a graduate of Yale University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and of the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.]
