so on January 8, 2015. Her second confirmation hearing was held January 21, and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously in favor of her confirmation on February 26. Lee was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 9, 2015, and took the oath of office on March 12, when she was sworn in by Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Lee resigned from the USPTO on June 6, 2017. Upon Lee's resignation, USPTO Associate Solicitor Joseph Matal began performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office until Andrei Iancu was sworn in. Private enterprise In September 2019, Lee became vice president of Amazon Web Services. She is also a full-term member of the MIT Corporation, which operates her alma mater. References External links Michelle K. Lee, official biography at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Presidential Nomination no. 2103, 113th Congress, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Presidential Nomination no. 61, 114th Congress, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee 1965 births Living people Under Secretaries of Commerce for Intellectual Property American patent attorneys American women of Chinese descent in politics MIT School of Engineering alumni People from Santa Clara, California Stanford Law School alumni 21st-century American women