EXECUTION VERSION May 1, 2019 VIA HAND DELIVERY David Jaffe Dear David: This Transition and Separation Agreement and General Release (“Agreement”) will confirm the terms of your retirement from Ascena Retail Group, Inc. (the “Company”) at the request...

EXECUTION VERSION May 1, 2019 VIA HAND DELIVERY Xxxxx Xxxxx Dear Xxxxx: This Transition and Separation Agreement and General Release (“Agreement”) will confirm the terms of your retirement from Ascena Retail Group, Inc. (the “Company”) at the request of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) on mutually agreeable terms as set forth below. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Company also includes any parent, affiliates, predecessors, successors, subsidiaries, and other related entities and each of their past and/or present officers, directors, employees, and agents. You and the Company (collectively, the “Parties”) agree that this Agreement represents the full and complete agreement concerning your separation from employment with the Company. 1. Transition Date: Effective May 1, 2019 (the “Transition Date”), you will retire as the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, although you will continue to serve as a member of the Board following the Transition Date. Effective on the Transition Date, you hereby resign from any and all positions you hold at the Company, including all positions you hold as an officer, director or fiduciary, other than your position as a member of the Board, and you agree to execute the resignation letters attached hereto as Exhibit A as well as such other resignation letters reasonably requested by the Company. Provided you execute this Agreement, from the Transition Date through June 28, 2019 (such period, the “Advisory Period”), you will continue to serve as an employee of the Company, and will be a senior advisor to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. During the Advisory Period, you will be expected to perform, and you will perform, services equal to 25% of the average level of bona fide services that you provided to the Company prior to the Transition Date (the intent of the foregoing is that you will not incur a “separation from service,” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), during the Advisory Period). During the Advisory Period, you will provide such services as you and the Chief Executive Officer and/or the Interim Executive Chair deem mutually and reasonably appropriate. In consideration for providing services during the Advisory Period, you will be receive a salary at the annualized rate of $250,000, payable in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices and subject applicable withholdings. Your last day of employment with the Company will be Friday, June 28, 2019 (the “Separation Date”), at which time you will incur a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A. On the Separation Date, regardless of whether you sign this Agreement, you will receive your base salary through the Separation Date, less applicable withholding. In addition, regardless of whether you sign this Agreement, you will be entitled to receipt of your vested 107624016v8

account balance under the Company’s Executive Retirement Plan (the “ERP”), payable to you in accordance with your deferral elections under the ERP (for the avoidance of doubt, the Parties stipulate that your deferral election is to receive a cash lump sum) and subject to a six-month delay pursuant to Section 409A of the Code, such that, for purposes of clarity, you will receive your entire account balance under the ERP on Thursday, January 2, 2020. 2. Consideration: Provided that you sign and return this Agreement without revoking it as set forth in Paragraph 26 of this Agreement and provided further that you sign and return the supplemental release attached hereto as Annex 1 without revoking it as set forth in Paragraph __ of the supplemental release, the Company will, following your Separation Date: (a) Pay you the equivalent of 24 months of pay (the “Severance Period”) at your annual rate of salary of $1,000,000 (for clarity, for an aggregate amount of $2,000,000), less applicable withholding. This amount will be paid in substantially equal installments during the Severance Period on the same bi-weekly pay schedule as the Company’s payroll, beginning with the first normal pay period after your Separation Date. Although the Company does not guarantee any particular tax treatment relating to the payments and benefits to be provided to you under this Agreement, it is the intent of the Parties that all payments and benefits under this Agreement comply with or be exempt from Section 409A of the Code and, accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted, this Agreement shall be interpreted to be in compliance therewith. The Parties agree to reasonably cooperate to take all further actions necessary to satisfy the requirements of Section 409A of the Code. (b) Subject to your and/or your covered dependents’, as applicable, timely election of continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), and your or your covered dependents’, as applicable, continued payment of premiums at the same level and cost as if you were an employee of the Company (excluding, for purposes of calculating cost, an employee’s ability to pay premiums with pre-tax dollars), for a period though the earlier of (x) the applicable period that you and/or your covered dependents, as applicable, are eligible for continuation coverage under COBRA and (y) you becoming eligible for coverage under the health and medical insurance plans of a subsequent employer, (1) provide you and your eligible dependents continued participation in the Company’s (or its successors) health and medical insurance plans (to the extent permitted under applicable law and the terms of such plan), in a manner intended to avoid any excise tax under Section 4980D of the Code and (2) pay you $2,000 per month for each month you and your covered dependents receive COBRA (but in no event shall the payments exceed $36,000), less applicable withholding; and (c) Pay you a lump sum, less applicable withholding, which is equivalent to the amount that you would have been eligible to receive under the Spring season short-term incentive bonus plan, as in effect and as that program may be modified, from time to time, based on actual achievement of the performance goals established for the Spring season, had you been employed by the Company at the time that payments to active employees are made in or about September/October 2019, prorated as applicable based upon your service - 2 - 107624016v8

7. Accrued Vacation: You will be paid for all accrued but unused vacation if required by the applicable policy under which the vacation was earned. You understand that you are entitled to this payment regardless of whether you sign this Agreement. 8. No Interference with Rights: The Parties agree that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prohibit you from challenging illegal conduct and/or engaging in protected activity, including without limitation filing a charge or complaint with, and/or participating in any investigation or proceeding conducted by, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”), the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and/or any other federal, state, or local government agency. Further, the Parties agree that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to interfere with the ability of any federal, state, or local government agency to investigate any such charge or complaint, or your ability to communicate voluntarily with, including providing documents or other information to, any such agency. However, by signing this Agreement, you understand that you are waiving your right to receive individual relief (including without limitation back pay, front pay, reinstatement, or other legal or equitable relief) based on claims asserted in any such charge or complaint, except where such a waiver is prohibited and except for any right you may have to receive a payment from a government agency (and not the Company) for information provided to the government agency. You understand that your release of claims as contained in this Agreement does not extend to any rights you may have under any laws governing the filing of claims for COBRA, unemployment, disability insurance, and/or workers’ compensation benefits. You further understand that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit you from: (a) challenging the Company’s failure to comply with its promises to make payment and provide other consideration under this Agreement; (b) asserting your right to any vested benefits to which you are entitled pursuant to the terms of the applicable plans and/or applicable law; (c) challenging the knowing and voluntary nature of your release of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; (d) asserting any claim that cannot lawfully be waived by private agreement; and/or (e) asserting any claim that may arise after the date this Agreement was signed. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prohibit you from reporting an event that you reasonably and in good faith believe is a violation of law to the relevant law- enforcement agency (including but not limited to the EEOC, Department of Justice, the SEC, Congress, the Department of Labor, and any Inspector General), from cooperating in an investigation conducted by such a government agency, or making other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any law or regulation. This may include disclosure of trade secret or confidential information within the limitations permitted by the 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act (the “DTSA”). You are hereby provided notice that under the DTSA, (1) no individual will be held criminally or civilly liable under federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret (as defined in the Economic Espionage Act) that: (A) is made in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and made solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal so that it is not made public; and, (2) an individual who pursues a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of the law may disclose the - 4 - 107624016v8

benefits, attorney’s fees, costs, interest or other monies, from the beginning of time through the date that you sign this Agreement. You agree that, except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 8 of this Agreement and except with respect to the payments and benefits set forth in this Agreement, your covenants and releases, as set forth in this Agreement, include a waiver of any and all rights or remedies which you ever had or may now have against the Company, from the beginning of time through the date that you sign this Agreement, under any present and/or future federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, regulation, constitution, and/or common law, including, but not limited to: the New York State Human Rights Law; the New York City Administrative Code; the New York Labor Law; the New York Minimum Wage Act; the statutory provisions regarding retaliation/discrimination under the New York Worker’s Compensation Law; the New York City Earned Sick Time Act; the New York City Human Rights Law; the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination; the New Jersey Family Leave Act; the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act; the New Jersey Wage Payment Law; the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law; the New Jersey Equal Pay Law; the New Jersey Smoker’s Rights Act; the New Jersey Lie Detector Test Law; the New Jersey Jury Duty Employee Protection Law; the New Jersey Worker Freedom From Intimidation Act; the New Jersey Political Activities of Employees Law; the New Jersey Fair Credit Reporting Act; the retaliation provisions of the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Law; the New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act; the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act; the New Jersey Military Leave Law; the New Jersey Employment Protection for Volunteer Emergency Responder Law; the New Jersey Social Media Privacy law; the New Jersey Opportunity to Compete Act; all Municipal Sick Leave Laws; any claims for violation of the New Jersey State Constitution; the Stop Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Act; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Civil Rights Act of 1866; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Americans with Disabilities Act; the Equal Pay Act; the Family and Medical Leave Act; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act; the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act; the Occupational Safety and Health Act; the National Labor Relations Act; the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act; the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act; the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Xx xx 0000, 00 X.X.X. §0000; Sections 748 (h)(i), 922 (h)(i) and 1057 of the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street and Consumer Protection Act (the “Xxxx Xxxxx Act”), 7 U.S.C. §26(h), 15 U.S.C. §78u-6(h)(i) and 12 U.S.C. §5567(a), but excluding from this Agreement any right you may have to receive a monetary award from the SEC as an SEC Whistleblower, pursuant to the bounty provision under Section 922(a)-(g) of the Xxxx Xxxxx Act, 7 U.S.C. Sec. 26(a)-(g); and any similar federal, state or local statute or law applicable to your employment, all as amended. This Agreement is also intended to and shall release the Company from any and all wage and hour related claims arising out of or in any way connected with your employment with the Company, to the maximum extent permitted by federal and state law. You further acknowledge that as of the date you have signed this Agreement, you have reported any and all work-related illnesses or injuries to the Company. 13. No Claims Filed: Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 8 of this Agreement, you represent that no claims, complaints or other proceedings are pending in any court or other forum relating directly or indirectly to your employment with the Company and/or separation from employment. - 6 - 107624016v8

such provision, such court shall reduce such scope to the minimum extent necessary to make such covenants valid and enforceable. 22. Assignment and Third Party Beneficiaries: You shall not assign any interest in this Agreement or any part thereof without the express written consent of an authorized officer of the Company. The Company may assign this Agreement to, and shall bind, a successor to its business without the requirement of consent by you. Each Affiliate of the Company shall be a third party beneficiary of your obligations under the provisions of this Agreement and shall have the right to enforce this Agreement as if a party hereto. 23. Choice of Law: This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. Any dispute arising out of, or relating to this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts of New York. 24. Acknowledgement: By signing this Agreement, you acknowledge that: (a) You have 21 days within which to review and consider signing this Agreement and understand that any changes made to this Agreement, whether material or immaterial, do not restart the 21 day period that you have in which to consider this Agreement; (b) If you sign this Agreement prior to the expiration of the 21 day period, you do so voluntarily and thereby waive the remainder of the 21 day period; (c) By this Paragraph of the Agreement, you have been advised to, and have had the opportunity to, consult with an attorney of your choice prior to signing this Agreement; (d) You have read and fully understand the terms of this Agreement and have knowingly, voluntarily and of your own free will agreed to those terms for the purpose of fully and finally compromising and settling any and all claims, disputed or otherwise, of any kind or nature that you ever had or may now have against the Company arising out of your employment by, and/or separation of employment from, the Company, or otherwise, whether known or unknown to you at the time of execution of this Agreement, except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 8 of this Agreement; (e) You have not relied upon any representation, statement or omission made by any of the Company’s agents, attorneys or representatives with regard to the subject matter, basis or effect of this Agreement or otherwise, other than those expressly stated in this Agreement; (f) You are not waiving any claims that may arise after you execute this Agreement; and (g) The consideration provided to you under Paragraph 2 of this Agreement exceed the amount to which you would have otherwise been entitled as a result of your separation from the Company’s employ and are in exchange for you signing this Agreement. 25. Return of Signed Agreement; Counterparts: You should sign and return this signed Agreement to Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, 000 XxxXxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000, or in the alternative, your counsel may provide your signature to counsel for the Company via email, no earlier than the Transition Date, and no later than 21 days from the date you received this Agreement. If you sign or return this Agreement earlier than the Transition Date, or if you do not return the signed Agreement by the date that is 21 days after the date you received this Agreement, this Agreement shall be deemed revoked, null, void and of no effect, and you shall have no entitlement to pay, benefits or any - 9 - 107624016v8

(ii) shall not be violated with regard to expenses reimbursed under any arrangement covered by Section 105(b) of the Code solely because such expenses are subject to a limit related to the period the arrangement is in effect and (iii) such payments shall be made on or before the last day of your taxable year following the taxable year in which the expense occurred. 28. Supplemental Release: You agree that your entitlement to the payments and benefits set forth in Paragraph 2 of this Agreement is expressly conditioned on his execution of a supplemental release in the form annexed hereto as Annex 1 (the “Supplemental Release”) no earlier than the Separation Date and no later than 21 days after the Separation Date. If you do not execute the Supplemental Release, you will not be entitled to any of the payments or benefits set forth in Paragraph 2. Sincerely, /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Lead Independent Director Read, Accepted and Agreed: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx 5/1/19 Xxxxx Xxxxx Date - 11 - 107624016v8