Becton, Dickinson and Company announced that Lanesha Minnix has been named executive vice president and general counsel for the company, effective March 16, 2026. Minnix will be responsible for leading the Law Group and Public Affairs at BD. She will report to Tom Polen, chairman, CEO and president of BD, and serve on the BD Executive Leadership Team.
Minnix most recently served as executive vice president and chief legal officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance, where she led legal, corporate affairs, risk, security and EHS for the company. She played a key role in the company's $24 billion take-private transaction, one of the largest in the health care and retail sectors. Prior to that, Minnix held senior executive roles at Ecolab and Flowserve, where she built and modernized global legal and compliance functions, strengthened governance frameworks, partnered with regulators and policymakers, and delivered measurable operational and financial results.
Minnix holds a Juris Doctor and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tulsa, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Saint Louis University.
Becton, Dickinson and Company specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical and diagnostic equipment and materials. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- medical management systems (52.4%): medication delivery systems, pharmaceutical systems, advanced patient monitoring systems, etc.;
- interventional medical equipment (23.9%): surgical instruments, urological care products, etc.;
- diagnostic materials and clinical research and development tools (23.7%): automated systems for blood testing, mycobacteria detection, and molecular biology, medical biology devices, tools for studying genes and culturing cells, instruments for sorting and analyzing cells, monoclonal antibodies, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (58.6%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (21.6%), Asia (14.2%) and other (5.6%).
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