diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/contextmenu-hc-icon_2018-03-13-22-21.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/contextmenu-hc-icon_2018-03-13-22-21.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8caee72caa064
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/contextmenu-hc-icon_2018-03-13-22-21.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+      "comment": "ContextualMenu: Improved high contrast support for icons.",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "lynam.emily@gmail.com"
+}
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diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.styles.ts b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.styles.ts
index 07c886c7a8292..4b5a6fbaecea2 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.styles.ts
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.styles.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ const getItemHighContrastStyles = memoizeFunction((): IRawStyle => {
         backgroundColor: 'Highlight',
         borderColor: 'Highlight',
         color: 'HighlightText',
-        MsHighContrastAdjust: 'none'
+        MsHighContrastAdjust: 'none',
+        selectors: {
+          '.ms-ContextualMenu-icon': {
+            color: 'HighlightText'
+          }
+        }
       }
     },
   };
@@ -128,11 +133,6 @@ export const getMenuItemStyles = memoizeFunction((
     },
     iconColor: {
       color: semanticColors.menuIcon,
-      selectors: {
-        [HighContrastSelector]: {
-          color: 'HighlightText',
-        }
-      }
     },
     iconDisabled: {
       color: semanticColors.disabledBodyText,