Mitchell Baker received her JD from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and was admitted to the State Bar of California in the same year.
13 Facts About Mitchell Baker
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Mitchell Baker then worked for Sun Microsystems as an Associate General Counsel from November 1993 until October 1994.
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In November 1994, Mitchell Baker was hired as one of the first employees of the legal department of Netscape Communications Corporation.
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Mitchell Baker was responsible for intellectual property protection and legal issues relating to product development, reporting to the General Counsel.
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Mitchell Baker created and managed the Technology Group of the Legal Department.
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Mitchell Baker was involved with the Mozilla project from the outset, writing both the Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License.
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In February 1999, Mitchell Baker became the general manager of mozilla.
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In November 2002, Mitchell Baker was employed by the Open Source Applications Foundation, helping to guide the group's community relations and taking a seat on OSAF's Board of Directors.
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Mitchell Baker was instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, an independent non-profit that was launched on July 15,2003, as America Online shut down the Netscape browser division and drastically scaled back its involvement with the Mozilla project.
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Mitchell Baker became the President of the Mozilla Foundation and was appointed to the five-person Board of Directors.
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On January 8,2008, Mozilla announced that Mitchell Baker, while retaining her role as Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, would no longer serve as CEO of the Corporation, and that MoCo's Chief Operating Officer John Lilly would take over this role.
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In 2009, Mitchell Baker received the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Leadership.
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In 2012, Mitchell Baker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.