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NSF International, a global public health organization that operates in 170 countries, has appointed Julie Timmer as its vice president and general counsel.
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based NSF is a nonprofit organization that writes health and safety standards, and tests and certifies products for the water, food, health sciences and consumer goods industries. The group is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization collaborating center on food safety, water quality and indoor environment.
“Julie’s experience will be valuable as we navigate the legal and regulatory complexities associated with our global work,” said a statement from Kevan Lawlor, NSF president and CEO. “I’m confident that she will be instrumental in furthering our mission to protect and improve human health worldwide.”
Besides the U.S., NSF has major offices in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, New Zealand, and United Arab Emirates.
Julie Timmer. Courtesy photo.
The organization said Timmer’s role will be to advise and counsel NSF leaders on the legal, risk and compliance aspects of business initiatives, policies, employment relationships and other issues.
Previously Timmer served as senior counsel for Maxion Wheels, which labels itself the top vehicle wheel supplier in the world. During her 15-year tenure at Michigan-based Maxion, she provided counsel on global, regional and local legal issues related to the company’s reputation, employees, and proprietary systems and technologies.
Before going in-house, Timmer served as an associate and commercial litigator for three law firms, most recently Detroit-based Bodman.
Raised in Ontario, Timmer graduated from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in Dallas. She started her law career at Texas-based Mullin Hoard & Brown, and moved to Clark Hill in Detroit two years later, then to Bodman.
Outside of her legal career, Timmer has written and published three novels in her spare time. A blurb on her fiction website states:
“Julie Lawson Timmer grew up in Stratford, Ontario, and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband Dan, their four teenaged children and two badly behaved labs. By day, she works as in-house legal counsel. By night, she is a writer, mom and stepmom, dreadful cook and fledgling CrossFitter.”
In 2014 Timmer wrote an essay for the Daily Mail in Great Britain describing how she had met her husband on an internet match site, and they had blended his two children and her two children from previous marriages into one family.
