Carolyn Blankenship

Senior Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel
Thomson Reuters

Biography

Carolyn Blankenship is Senior Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel for Thomson Reuters. She has been in private practice as well as in-house, in a variety of firms and companies, including Skadden, Arps, U.S. Surgical (now Covidien), Priceline.com and Thomson Reuters. Ms. Blankenship attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard College as an undergraduate, and received her J.D. from Arizona State University College of Law (now the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law).