Discover Financial Services added Kelly Welsh as the incoming interim chief legal officer, general counsel and head of corporate and public affairs.

Welsh served as general counsel of the United States Department of Commerce and as executive vice president, general counsel and a member of the management committees of Northern Trust and Ameritech.

He also was corporation counsel of the City of Chicago and a partner at the law firm of Mayer Brown. He served previously on the board of directors of Bank of the West and of BancWest Holdings.

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