Judith Beach joined Laboratory Corporation of America (Labcorp) in June 2020 as Vice President and Global Privacy Head, and she heads the Global Privacy Office. In this role, she co-chairs the newly created global Council on Data Privacy.
Judith serves as Co-Chair of the Communications Committee for the Privacy and Data Security Council of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is the founder and current chair of the cross-industry Carolina Privacy Officials Network (CPON). For the fall semester of 2019, she served as adjunct professor in healthcare law, including privacy law, at the Charleston School of Law. She has been appointed by the former Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada as an Ambassador of Privacy by Design, received the Luminary Award from the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Judith has many publications in the fields of privacy and regulatory law and has had numerous speaking engagements in these areas. In this regard, she served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Food & Drug Law Journal (2011-2014) and was a member of the Food Drug Law Institute Committee for the H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition.
From 1999 to December 2017, Judith was the Senior Vice President, Senior Counsel for Regulatory and Government Affairs, and the Global Chief Privacy Officer for IQVIA (formerly Quintiles). In this role, Judith was the Founder and Chair of the Council on Data Protection (global internal privacy board) and the Council on Research Ethics (CORE), directed the Privacy Incident Response Team, coordinated the monitoring of the Privacy by Design program for all categories of data, and served on the Global Risk Assessment and Mitigation Committee.
Counselor Beach received her law degree cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where she was an Associate Editor on the main law review, the Georgetown Law Journal. Then she served as law clerk for the influential District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Thereafter, she was an associate attorney with two leading Washington, D.C., law firms: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C., where she specialized in civil litigation and food, drug, medical device and healthcare law, respectively. She is admitted to the State Bars of Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia and North Carolina and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Beach received her B.S. degree summa cum laude from Clemson University and her Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from Duke University. She was a Research Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of California San Francisco and then a Clinical Investigator at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C. She is an elected member of Sigma Xi (Scientific Honor Society) and the Endocrine Society and a member of the influential American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).