Walmart Inc. announced that Erin Nealy Cox has been named Executive Vice President of Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer (CLO), and Corporate Secretary. Cox will assume responsibilities on April 13, 2026. Cox joins Walmart from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she has served as a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group since 2021.
She previously served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, where she led a broad range of federal investigations and prosecutions, including matters involving white-collar crime, national security, cybercrime, and public corruption. She was appointed to and then chaired the Attorney General?s Advisory Committee. Before her U.S. Attorney appointment, Cox was an Executive Managing Director at Stroz Friedberg, a global cybersecurity and risk management firm, where she led its global incident response practice.
Her earlier career also included nearly a decade of service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the same district she served as U.S. Attorney. Cox earned her J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law and her B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
