Paramount’s New Board Members Include Ex-Judge, Attorney (1)

Paramount Global, the owner of CBS and MTV, nominated three new members to its board of directors and one stepped down, bringing the total to seven as the media and entertainment company faces a lawsuit from the US president and seeks merger approval.

The company named Charles Ryan, general partner at venture capital firm Almaz Capital; Mary Boies, counsel at law firm Boies Schiller Flexner; and former judge Roanne Sragow Lichtas nominees. Judith McHale, a former executive at Discovery Communications, isn’t standing for reelection.

Boies, the wife of litigator David Boies, worked at ...