Employers Holdings Inc. has announced Lori Brown will be its new legal leader.

Brown will become the workers' compensation holding company's executive vice president, chief legal officer and general counsel in January 2019, upon the retirement of current legal leader Lenard Ormsby. Employers announced Brown's appointment in a press release Monday.

“Brown brings over 25 years of experience as an attorney primarily in the areas of labor and employment, corporate governance and SEC compliance,” the company said in a press release.

The CLO position is a bump up from her current role in the company's legal department, where she currently serves as senior vice president and deputy general counsel.

In her current deputy general counsel role, Brown's responsibilities include serving as a director and assistant corporate secretary of Employers Group Inc., as well as the corporate secretary to all of subsidiary companies. Brown has been in that role since March 2015, when she was promoted from vice president.

Her new role may bring different responsibilities, as well a new home base. According to her LinkedIn and the California Bar Association, Brown is currently based in Walnut Creek, California. But as GC, she'll be based in Reno, Nevada, where Employees' headquarters is located.

Brown has been with the company since January 2006. Prior to that, she was senior legal counsel at DHL Worldwide for nearly a decade, from May 1996 to April 2005. Her legal career began at Littler Mendelson, where she spent two years.

She holds a J.D. from the University of San Francisco.