New Weyerhaeuser RM had to fight hard for job.(risk manager Gary A. Baxter)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, October, 1995 by Katz, David M.

Gary A. Baxter thought he was the single heir apparent" to one of the most visible risk management jobs in the country, the director of insurance and assistant treasurer for Weyerhaeuser Co. After 24 years with the big wood and paper products company in Tacoma, Wash., Mr. Baxter, the assistant director of insurance, felt sure he would replace Cheri J.

Hawkins, who recently announced she will retire on June 1 of next year. Ms. Hawkins, the first woman named president of the New York-based Risk and Insurance Management Society and an outspoken advocate of risk managers' interests on the high-profile issue of pollution liability, has been one of the nation's most prominent risk managers. But Mr. Baxter felt his experience in many aspects of risk management at...

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