The Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S., whose members include beverage behemoth Beam Suntory Inc., Bacardi and Moët Hennessy USA, has hired antitrust lawyer Courtney Armour as chief legal officer and corporate secretary.

Armour, who also was appointed CLO of Responsibility.org, spent the past seven years as an antitrust lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Washington, D.C., where she focused on complex litigation related to competition matters, mergers, product innovation, business counseling and domestic and foreign government investigations.