Matthew Levitt of Patterson Companies, Inc. to Retire

Patterson Companies, Inc. has announced that Matthew L. “Buzz” Levitt, secretary and general counsel, will be retiring after more than 25 years with the company, effective at the end of the fiscal year, on April 26, 2014. Levitt will be succeeded by Jonelle R. Burnham, who is being promoted to the position of vice president, general counsel and secretary. Burnham’s appointment is effective on April 27, 2014. Burnham has served as Patterson Companies’ associate general counsel since 2009. Prior to her tenure at Patterson, Burnham held positions as counsel, assistant secretary and senior patent attorney for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a global consumer brand company, and as an associate attorney in the Minneapolis office of the Merchant & Gould law firm.