Janet S. Fogarty was named Textron's vice president and deputy general counsel in June 2020. She manages the Corporate legal staff and has primary responsibility for overseeing all non-litigation legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, SEC-related matters, corporate finance, antitrust, ethics and compliance, global trade compliance and intellectual property. Fogarty is a member of the enterprise-wide Legal Council and leads the Legal Council Working Group.

Fogarty joined Textron Financial Corporation in 2004 as in-house counsel, and subsequently held positions of increasing authority, first at Textron Financial Corporation and then as part of the Textron Corporate legal staff, before being named vice president and deputy general counsel of Textron. Prior to joining Textron Financial Corporation, she was an attorney in private practice in Rhode Island.

Fogarty received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her B.A. in economics from Boston College.