Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-09/New hires

Over the last two weeks, the Wikimedia Foundation has hired two new employees: Sue Gardner will serve as a consultant and special advisor, and Mike Godwin will serve as general counsel and Legal Coordinator.

On 27 June, Wikimedia Foundation chair Florence Devouard announced that Sue Gardner would be hired as a "consultant and special advisor" to the Foundation. In the announcement, Devouard said:

Gardner thanked Wikimedians for "all the very kind welcomes", and noted that she would be focusing on learning the various processes, wikis and mailing lists, and meeting with office staff, and would start much of her work after Wikimania, due to a prior commitment from July 7 through July 25.

On 3 July, Devouard announced that the foundation had hired Mike Godwin to handle Wikimedia's legal responsibilities:

Godwin, perhaps best known for his work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and for Godwin's Law, coined by Godwin in 1990, has edited Wikipedia in the past, anonymously and under the username Mikegodwin.

The two hires follow the hiring of Vishal Patel as a part-time Business Developer in May, and the hiring of Cary Bass as Volunteer Coordinator in April.