Procter & Gamble Gets New Legal Head as Longtime Chief to Retire

Procter & Gamble Co. will have a new top lawyer for the first time in a dozen years when chief legal officer Deborah Majoras is replaced next month.

Susan Street Whaley, the current general counsel of Procter & Gamble’s North America practice groups and sector business units, will replace Majoras as legal chief and corporate secretary on July 1 ahead of the latter’s Sept. 16 retirement, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Whaley has spent more than 23 years in-house at P&G, which hired Majoras, a former Jones Day partner and one-time chair of the Federal Trade ...