Albemarle Corporation announced that on October 25, 2022, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Karen G. Narwold, advised the Board of Directors of the Company that she will retire from the Company effective April 4, 2023. Kristin M. Coleman will join the company as executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary on Nov. 28, 2023.

Coleman will report to J. Kent Masters, chairman and CEO. Narwold's retirement follows nearly 13 years as Albemarle's general counsel and corporate secretary and a 36-year legal career. She joined Albemarle in 2010 as senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary.

She was appointed to her current role in 2016. Coleman will join Albemarle from US Foods, an American foodservice distributor, where she has served as executive vice president, general counsel, and chief compliance officer since 2017. Previously, she served as senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Sears Holdings Corporation and as vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary for Brunswick Corporation.

Before moving in-house, she worked in private practice with Sidley Austin LLP. Coleman earned a juris doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School and a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Duke University. She founded the Chicago General Counsel Forum and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

She serves as a Board Member Emeritus for the Center for Enriched Living.