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John Schierholz, Duke Manufacturing
Staff Report//January 14, 2026//
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Chesterfield
Many attorneys have to spend a little time toiling in the industry before becoming a general counsel but John Schierholz became one right out of law school.
Schierholz’s employer at the time, a chemical company, was engaged in a legal fight related to a leveraged buyout and decided they needed a top legal officer, so they paid to help Schierholz attend school at night to become the organization’s first.
“Absent my having gone to school and becoming an attorney, they wouldn’t have added a general counsel,” he recalled. “It worked out well to have the expertise in house.”
Since those days, the Saint Louis University graduate has moved on to his current job at Duke Manufacturing.
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