A longtime in-house attorney at Dallas-based Parkland Health & Hospital System was named the organization’s executive vice president and general counsel Dec. 20.

Steven Roth, who has been employed at Parkland Health since 2001, will also serve as the chief counsel for Parkland Community Health Plan Inc. and as chief counsel for the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. Roth most recently served as the interim general counsel at Parkland after Paul Leslie left the role earlier in 2018 to take a job as partner at Estes Thorne & Carr in Dallas, according to his LinkedIn profile.