Sylvia Kerrigan Steps Down as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Occidental

Sylvia Kerrigan left the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Occidental on July 31, 2026, according to GlobeNewswire.

Occidental said Sylvia Kerrigan, its Chief Legal Officer since 2022, will hand day-to-day legal leadership to new General Counsel Brad Pollack on August 1, 2026 and stay on as Chief Legal Officer through year-end before serving as a senior strategic adviser through 2027. Her team worked on the CrownRock acquisition and the OxyChem divestiture. (Source: GlobeNewswire.)

More legal leadership moves at Occidental

• Brad Pollack Named Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Occidental (July 31, 2026)

Other general counsel moves in July 2026

• Brad Pollack Named Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Occidental (July 31, 2026)
• Wm. Gordon Prescott Steps Down as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Beacon Financial (July 31, 2026)
• Courtney Nelson Wills Steps Down as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of MiniMed Group (July 30, 2026)
• Alan J. Glass Steps Down as Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Standex International (July 30, 2026)
• Mutya Harsch Steps Down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of VYNE Therapeutics (July 27, 2026)
• Erin Abrams Steps Down as Chief Legal Officer of Via Transportation (July 27, 2026)
• Matt Levine Named Chief Legal Officer of Via Transportation (July 27, 2026)
• Mary Mabey Steps Down as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ATN International (July 27, 2026)

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Source: GlobeNewswire. InhouseBlog summarizes publicly reported general counsel moves and links to the original report.

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