Weyerhaeuser Company appoints Devin W. Stockfish as vice president of Western Timberlands, and Kristy T. Harlan as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Both changes will be effective January 1, 2017, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Stockfish currently serves as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. In his new role, he will lead the company's Timberlands operations in Washington and Oregon. Stockfish will report to Rhonda D. Hunter, senior vice president of Timberlands.

Harlan joins Weyerhaeuser from the law firm of K&L Gates LLP, where she is a partner focusing on corporate, securities and business-related transactions, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, financing, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and corporate governance. In her new role, she will lead the company's Law department. Harlan will join the company as a senior vice president effective November 28, and assume her new role as general counsel and corporate secretary on January 1. She will report directly to Simons.

Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, began operations in 1900.