Steve Naughton

Director - Regulatory Compliance Studies Program and Clinical Professor

Steve Naughton joins us after more than 30 years of experience an an attorney managing risk and compliance efforts for large multinational corporations. Specifically, Steve has served as a Chief Compliance Officer, overseeing the Litigation and Compliance functions, of three well-known consumer brands. 

For the past three years, Steve has served as a member of the monitorship team overseeing Volkswagen’s remediation efforts after its emissions scandal. Steve has worked on the team responsible for assisting Volkswagen in designing and implementing an appropriate compliance function and program to prevent, detect and resolve compliance risks with the world’s largest automaker. 

Before his work on the monitorship team, Steve was the Vice President and Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer of Kimberly-Clark, a multinational corporation operating in more than 100 countries. He served in the same role at PepsiCo. Both programs were recognized as industry leaders with PepsiCo receiving the first perfect 100 score for its compliance program from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.  Steve was recognized as a “Top Mind in Compliance” by Compliance Week in its inaugural class of honorees. 

Prior to working as a Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Steve held numerous positions as an in-house attorney for PepsiCo and The Quaker Oats Company. He was also elected as a partner at the late, great Chicago law firm, Pope Ballard Shepard and Fowle.  He is a member of the bar of the State of Illinois.

Steve and his wife, Nancy Paridy, live in Evanston. Nancy, a Loyola Law School alumnus with an LLM in Health Law, serves as the Co-President and Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel for the Shirley Ryan Abilitylab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago). They have three children, Matthew, an attorney practicing in Chicago; Peter, a civil engineer in California and Ellen, a recent graduate of Georgetown University.

Education

JD - University of Notre Dame
BA - Marquette University

Courses Taught

LAW 820 - Compliance and Culture
LAW 836 - Compliance Seminar
LAW 839 - Corporate Compliance
LAW 874 - ESG - Environmental Social and Governance
LAW 995 and 996 - Thesis

Publications/Research Listings

ABA The Business Lawyer, Fall 2024 "Corporate Compliance Survey"

Loyola University Journal of Regulatory Compliance Fall 2022