J. Clifford Baxter

J. Clifford Baxter

John Clifford "Cliff" Baxter (September 27, 1958 – January 25, 2002) was a former Enron Corporation executive who resigned in May 2001. He sold $30 million worth of Enron stock during the months prior to Enron's bankruptcy. Reportedly, Baxter clashed with CEO Jeffrey Skilling over questionable Enron business practices. Before his death, he had agreed to testify before Congress in the Enron case.

Baxter was born in Amityville, New York, and graduated from New York University. After graduating, he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1980 to 1985 and rose to the rank of captain. After he left the military, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he received an MBA degree two years later. He worked in investment banking briefly before he joined Enron in 1991. He had a wife, Carol, and two children, a son and a daughter.