The Toro Company announced that Joanna M. Totsky will join the company as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective June 19, 2023. She comes to TTC from Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. where she most recently served as senior vice president, chief legal and transformation officer and secretary. Totsky succeeds Amy E. Dahl, who was recently named vice president, international with responsibility for leading and refining global enterprise strategies across TTC's businesses.

At Cooper-Standard Holdings, Totsky was a member of the leadership team and was actively involved in key strategic and operational priorities, and was responsible for leading the global legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining Cooper-Standard Holdings, she held roles of increasing responsibility at the Ford Motor Company during her 16-year tenure. There she developed deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) compliance, corporate social responsibility, and enterprise risk management.

Totsky serves as a board member for Inforum, a Michigan-based organization that advocates for women in business to increase opportunities and promote diversity, and is a board member for the Association of Corporate Counsel, a global bar association that focuses on in-house legal counsel. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from St. Mary's College in Detroit, and earned her Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit.