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 Commission, to be its general counsel in 2008. Two years later, P&G looked to Majoras to become its legal chief when Steven Jemison retired from the position.
The maker of products including Tide detergent, Charmin toilet paper, Bounty paper towels, and Gillette razors is making the legal transition after reporting quarterly sales that beat analyst expectations and helped the company counter a sustained increase in costs, Bloomberg News has reported.
The Cincinnati Business Journal News first reported news of the legal transition. Neither Majoras nor Whaley immediately responded to request for comment.
Whaley will report to Jon Moeller, who last summer was named P&G’s new president and chief executive officer.
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