The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity has named the leader of Crowell & Moring’s executive committee as its new chair.

The group appointed Washington, D.C.-based Ellen Dwyer, who is also a member of Crowell’s management board and partner in its labor and employment group, to take the organization’s reins Jan. 1, 2020. Dwyer will succeed Laura Stein, executive vice president and general counsel for The Clorox Co., who led the organization for two years.