Peter Carter, a top trial attorney in the Minneapolis law firm Dorsey & Whitney, this week was named chief legal officer for Delta Air Lines.
Dorsey's Peter Carter takes top legal job at Delta
Carter replaces Richard "Ben" Hirst, who is retiring.
June 6, 2015 at 2:14AM
Carter will report to Delta CEO Richard Anderson, who was once a top executive with Northwest Airlines when it was a Dorsey client. Carter replaces Richard "Ben" Hirst, another former Northwest official, who is retiring.
"Peter's expertise as a business litigator and experience with global matters will serve Delta well," Anderson said in a statement.
Carter has been at Dorsey for nearly 23 years and once served as chairman of the firm's board. He currently is co-chair of Dorsey's securities litigation and enforcement practice group.
In a note to his colleagues at Dorsey, Carter said he took the job "to work with Richard Anderson and his team at an airline that is in the midst of transforming a global industry."
Carter is a University of Notre Dame graduate and a Milwaukee native who received his law degree at the University of Minnesota in 1991.
"I am very fortunate to have grown up as a lawyer at Dorsey," Carter said.
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