Stephen Yslas
Corporate Vice President and General Counsel,
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Stephen D. Yslas is corporate vice president and general counsel.
Yslas oversees all of Northrop Grumman’s legal matters. He is also a member of the company’s corporate policy council.
Yslas was appointed corporate vice president, secretary and deputy general counsel in 2006, responsible for the corporate secretary and governance function and served as deputy general counsel, supervising general legal activities with particular responsibility for international and certain regulatory matters.
Yslas was appointed corporate vice president and deputy general counsel in 2001. His responsibilities included international, mergers and acquisitions, export control, labor and employment, employee benefits, environmental, antitrust, intellectual property, other federal and state regulatory matters, as well as Washington office legal support. Previously, he served as vice president and assistant general counsel.
He joined Northrop Grumman in 1975 as a corporate counsel, and has served as legal counsel for the company’s former Aircraft, Defense Systems, Electronics, Precision Products divisions, its former architectural systems subsidiary and its Electronic Systems sector.
Before joining Northrop Grumman, Yslas worked as a member of the legal staffs of the National Labor Relations Board and the Atlantic Richfield Company.
From 1980 to 1990, he served on the City of Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners. Yslas was a member of the board of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, American Heart Association Regional Board and the Police Memorial Foundation. He also served as a trustee of Claremont McKenna College. He is a regional board member of the Ahmanson Foundation. He is a member of the Hispanic National, California and Washington, D.C., bar associations.
Yslas is a Los Angeles native. He received a bachelor’s degree in public service in 1969 and a juris doctorate in 1972, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. For more information visit www.northropgrumman.com.