Semiconductor Giant Adds Top Lawyer Amid Huawei Battle

KLA Corp., a top U.S. microchip maker caught up in the federal government’s ongoing fight with China’s Huawei Technologies Co., announced Monday its hire of MaryBeth Wilkinson as chief legal officer.

Wilkinson will be based out of KLA’s second headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., and also hold the title of corporate secretary. Wilkinson spent the past decade in-house at O-I Glass Inc., a Perrysburg, Ohio-based glass container manufacturer that promoted her to general counsel in 2017.

She succeeds Teri Little, who left KLA in June to become legal chief for Applied Materials Inc., which has also watched its ...