$4.6 billion Lubrizol Corporation, a specialty chemical company that produces and supplies technologies to customers in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets, has hired Suzanne Day as corporate vice president and general counsel, effective Jan. 3, 2011. She will replace Joseph Bauer, who is retiring after 25 years with the company.

Day joined Lubrizol's global legal division in 1998 to handle litigation throughout the corporation, eventually heading the litigation and disputes practice section. In her new role, she will assume global responsibility for legal services, directing the corporation's legal strategy in support of the company's vision and objectives.