General Counsel

J. Stillman Hanson

J. Stillman Hanson

J. Stillman Hanson is General Counsel and has served in this position since Fortrea’s launch as an independent company in July 2023. 

Stillman has more than two decades of legal experience in both private practice and in-house positions, serving as strategic business advisor and partner as well as counsel on legal, compliance and corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Labcorp, he served as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary at G1 Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company from 2018 to 2023. Before that, Stillman was Associate General Counsel and Vice President at IQVIA, a publicly traded healthcare services company from 2016 to 2018. Stillman served as Associate General Counsel at Quintiles from 2010 to 2016, where he participated in Quintiles’ initial public offering in 2013 and contributed to Quintiles merger with IMS Health to create QuintilesIMS in 2016. Prior to joining Quintiles, he practiced corporate and securities law at Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP, a Raleigh, North Carolina law firm.

Stillman earned his JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law and a bachelor's degree in Economics and History from Wake Forest University. He is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar.