Gale Littleton

Gayle Littleton serves as Exelon’s Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary.

As Chief Legal Officer, Littleton leads a department of approximately 230 lawyers and legal and claims professionals. She oversees all legal matters, including regulatory proceedings, commercial transactions, litigation, labor and employment, benefits, cyber, privacy, and environmental. She also serves as the Company’s corporate secretary and leads the corporate- governance function.

Littleton is a member of Exelon’s Executive Committee and a member of the Exelon Foundation Board of Directors. She also is the executive sponsor of The Forum for Executive Women and the Network of Exelon Women.

Littleton also is active in the community. She co-chairs the Chicago General Counsel Forum and is on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the Lincoln Park Zoo. She is a member of the Association of General Counsels, the Edison Electric Institute’s Legal Planning Committee, the Economic Club of Chicago, Cornell Law School Dean’s Advisory Council, and the Stetson University College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board. Littleton also is active with Legal Counsel for Legal Diversity and has made an LCLD Leaders-on-the-Front pledge.

Prior to joining Exelon in 2020, Littleton was Co-Chair of the Investigations, Compliance and Defense Practice at Jenner & Block LLP. Littleton was Chambers USA-ranked in white-collar investigations and was named on Global Investigations Review’s list of 100 “Women in Investigations” globally. She served on Jenner’s Management Committee and co-chaired the firm’s Women’s Forum Steering Committee, comprised of women partners across offices. Before joining Jenner, Littleton was an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Department of Justice for over a decade in the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago and in the Northern District of Florida. Littleton is a former law clerk to the Honorable Gerald W. Heaney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and a former law clerk to the Honorable Joseph L. Tauro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Littleton received her law degree, magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stetson University.