MOVES
president following the retirement of
JAMES DERRICK, JR., from the post. Walls
went on to lead the restructuring of
the company, which ultimately dealt
with about 25,000 claims in excess of
$900 billion. He also oversaw the coordination of two court-appointed bankruptcy examiners and helped ;nalize
a plan of reorganization within three
years of Enron’s ;ling.
Walls started his career at Vinson
& Elkins, where he practiced energy,
;nance, and international law. —C.Z.
including intellectual property matters, corporate governance, and securities issues. It seems Huber will easily gauge her new duties, and handle
her position with measured aplomb.
—I.P.
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PRECISION INSTRUMENT
Agilent Technologies, Inc., knows
something about precision. The company is the leading manufacturer of
measurement tools, supplying scien-ti;c instruments and analysis equipment to a variety of industries. Not surprisingly, the business
made a well-calculated
decision when choosing a sharp company
insider for its top legal
job, promoting MARIE
OH HUBER to general
counsel, vice president, and secretary
in September. Huber
previously served as
Agilent’s deputy general counsel, vice
president, and assistant secretary. She
replaces Craig Nordlund, who retired
earlier this year.
Huber came to Agilent in 2000 with
substantial in-house experience, having worked as a mergers and acquisitions and securities lawyer for Hewlett-Packard Company for ten years. But
Huber, who holds a B.A. in economics
from Yale University, started her legal
career in private practice. After graduating from law school at Northwestern University, she spent two years in
New York at Dewey Ballantine (now
Dewey & LeBoeuf). Huber then took
a job with the now-defunct Heller
Ehrman in San Francisco and worked
there for two years before heading in-house. In her new position at Agilent,
which generated nearly $6 billion in
sales in 2008, Huber will be overseeing
the company’s global legal portfolio,
Marie Oh Huber
FROM COAL TO COOKIES
Its name may sound more industrial
than comestible, but Ralcorp Holdings,
Inc., is the country’s largest producer
of “store brand,” or private label, cere-
als. The company, which also makes
a wide array of other tasty treats—
including snack foods and frozen baked
goods—has chosen an experienced
in-house attorney to head up its legal
department. In October the food con-
glomerate named GREGORY BILLHARTZ
as general counsel, vice president, and
secretary. For his new job, Billhartz has
switched from coal to cookies; for the
past ;ve years, he was the assistant gen-
eral counsel and assistant secretary of
coal producer Arch Coal, Inc. Billhartz
replaces Charles Huber, who now
serves as president of Ralcorp Frozen
Bakery Products.
