Jill Patrone

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

As Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of PBS, Jill Patrone manages the Office of the Chief Legal Officer, which includes oversight of the Corporate Legal, Business Affairs, Legal Distribution, and Standards & Practices departments, as well as the Corporate Secretary’s Office.  

Patrone, who has been Acting Chief Legal Officer since March 2025, oversees all legal areas, including intellectual property, business affairs, litigation, regulatory, employment, corporate transactions, as well as board affairs and governance. 

She joined PBS in 2000 as Assistant General Counsel and later advanced to Associate General Counsel, Labor and Employment Counsel. In 2007, she was named Managing Corporate Counsel, and in 2019, she was promoted to Vice President, Deputy General Counsel. She was elevated to Senior Vice President, Acting Chief Legal Officer in November 2025.  

Over the course of her career at PBS, she has worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to help advance PBS’s mission of service to the American public. Before joining PBS, she worked at FindLaw.com and was an associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Duke Law School.