Phillips 66 Taps Norfolk Southern Legal Chief for Top Law Role

Phillips 66 is getting a new general counsel, Vanessa Sutherland, from Norfolk Southern Corp., where she was chief legal officer, recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa said Tuesday.

Sutherland, who has worked at Norfolk Southern since 2018, will take over the role being vacated by retiring longtime legal chief Paula Johnson. She will assume Johnson’s titles of executive vice president of legal and government affairs, general counsel, and corporate secretary.

She was the “natural choice” with experience as chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and divisional general counsel at the U.S. Department of ...