Kim K.W. Rucker, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Avon Products, Inc., directs all of Avon’s legal operations, which include matters relating to corporate governance, compliance, litigation, contracts, government affairs and intellectual property.

Prior to joining Avon in March 2008, Ms. Rucker was Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer for Energy Future Holdings, Corp. (formerly known as TXU Corp.) where she played a key role in the company’s recent $45 billion private equity transaction. She also guided its Board of Directors and senior management on numerous legal, business and policy-related matters, including: corporate governance; regulatory and compliance issues; strategic business transactions; executive compensation; disclosure strategy; corporate secretary and security functions.

Previously, Ms. Rucker was corporate counsel for Kimberly-Clark Corporation at its world headquarters in Dallas, Texas, with responsibilities in corporate governance, corporate transactions, securities law and other general legal matters. Earlier in her career, Ms. Rucker was a partner in the Corporate & Securities group at Sidley Austin in Chicago, Illinois.

Ms. Rucker is a 1987 Harry S. Truman Scholar and holds a B.B.A. in Economics from the University of Iowa from which she graduated with highest honors in 1989.

Ms. Rucker earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1993.