Rebecca Crocker '08 Cavin
Senior Corporate Counsel
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington
Becca (Crocker) Cavin is senior corporate counsel at Microsoft. She graduated from Valparaiso University in 2008 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering (magna cum laude) and with Christ College Scholar honors. She went on to earn her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in December 2010. Becca is a registered U.S. patent attorney. Becca spent six years as a patent litigation and patent prosecution associate at the international law firm K&L Gates LLP, resident in their Chicago office, where she also served on the Junior Board of Chicago Volunteer Legal Services and volunteered as an attorney in contested minor guardianship proceedings. Prior to returning to the U.S., Becca served as senior intellectual property advisor for Fisher & Paykel Healthcare in Auckland, New Zealand.