Strategic Council

Frank R. Jimenez

Vice President and General Counsel

Frank R. Jimenez is Vice President and General Counsel for ITT Corporation based in White Plains, NY. In his role, Jimenez has global responsibility for all legal matters for the company. He joined ITT in June 2009 and serves on the company's Strategic Council.

Jimenez previously served under Presidents Bush and Obama as the General Counsel of the Navy, leading a global office of nearly 850 staff as chief legal and ethics officer. In this position, he was one of seven Senate-confirmed Pentagon civilians of four-star equivalent rank overseeing the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

Earlier in his career, Jimenez served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and led Secretary Mel Martinez's senior management team for the $34 billion, 10,000 employee agency. Prior to HUD, he was Deputy Chief of Staff and Acting General Counsel for Florida Governor Jeb Bush, where he handled comprehensive policy, personnel and legal matters on the senior management team. Previously, he practiced complex commercial and white-collar litigation as a partner in the Miami office of Steel Hector & Davis LLP (now Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP).

Jimenez received his law degree from the Yale Law School, and he holds Master's degrees in Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Miami.