Don H. Liu
Don H. Liu is a Korean-American lawyer and Chief Legal and Risk Officer of Target Corporation.
Early life and education
Don H. Liu was born in Seoul, South Korea on 1963. His father was a mid-level city bureaucrat, and his mother was a nurse. Liu is the eldest of three children. The family moved to the United States in 1973 when he was 10 years old, after his mother got a job in a Philadelphia hospital. The first family member to learn English, Liu learned how to operate a business by helping his father on the series of businesses that he built up.Liu earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion from Haverford College. He received his Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Career
Beginning in 1987, Liu served as an associate in New York City for Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett, and then for Richards & O’Neil. His career working for law firms ended in 1992. Subsequently, he became Deputy Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Aetna U.S. Healthcare. After that, he was Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel for IKON Office Solutions and then as Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Manager and General Counsel at Toll Brothers, Inc. He was later Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for the Xerox Corporation.Since August 22, 2016, Liu has been Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Legal Officer of the Target Corporation.