Southwest Air Lawyer Gets Job as JSX Charter Carrier Legal Chief

A Southwest Airlines Co. lawyer left the company this month after more than 16 years to run her own legal team at Dallas-based charter carrier JSX Inc.

Kerrie Forbes announced her move in a LinkedIn post. She had been a managing director and associate general counsel for litigation and regulatory operations at Dallas-based Southwest. JSX and Forbes declined to comment.

Forbes leaves Southwest five months after she and two other company in-house lawyers—vice president of legal, labor, and litigation Kevin Minchey and lead labor and employment counsel Christopher Maberry—were ordered by US District Judge Brantley Starr to take religious ...