Barnes Group Inc. has hired veteran telecommunications officer Claudia Toussaint as general counsel and secretary for the Bristol manufacturing and logistical services company.
Toussaint also was named a senior vice president, succeeding Signe S. Gates, who retired April 1 after a decade at Barnes.
Toussaint most recently was vice president, corporate secretary and chief ethics officer at Embarq Corp. from 2005 to 2009, when it was acquired by CenturyTel Inc., now CenturyLink, a phone services and broadband provider.
Before Embarq, she was a corporate attorney at Sprint Corp. from 1997 to 2003, when she was named Sprint’s vice president and corporate secretary.
Toussaint also has worked as an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. She has her law degree from the University of California’s Hastings School Law in San Francisco. She also has an economics degree from UCLA.
She is currently president of the Kansas City Chapter of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.
Barnes said Toussaint is moving to Connecticut from Kansas.
