Ellen Dwyer, chair of Crowell & Moring’s executive committee, will become head of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity on Jan. 1.
Dwyer, a partner in the firm’s employment practice and who served as the firm’s managing partner as well as its general counsel, will succeed Laura Stein, executive vice president and general counsel for the Clorox Company.
Stein chaired the organization that promotes diversity in the legal profession for the past two years.
The council also named a chair-elect, Kim Rivera, president of strategy and business management and chief legal officer of HP, Inc.
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