Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is the latest member of Big Law to appoint a chief diversity officer whose job will be to focus full time on diversity and inclusion issues.

Rosa Walker

Pillsbury has appointed Rosa Walker, who has been the administrator of the firm’s Texas offices, to serve as the firm’s senior director of diversity and inclusion. In the newly established role, she will work closely with Stacie Yee, a partner in Los Angeles who was named this summer as the firm’s executive partner of the diversity and inclusion committee.