PPG Industries, a coatings and specialty products company, has named Anne Foulkes, currently assistant general counsel, to the additional role of corporate secretary. She will report to Glenn Bost, senior vice president and general counsel, effective immediately.

In this role, Foulkes adds duties as corporate secretary to her work as assistant general counsel leading legal support for the Performance Coatings and Optical and Specialty Materials reporting segments. Foulkes was named assistant general counsel in 2010, previously serving in a number of positions of increasing responsibility in PPG's law department. Prior to joining PPG in 1995, she was a litigation attorney with the firm Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott in Pittsburgh.