A high-profile Washington, D.C., trial lawyer is joining Walmart Inc. as its new senior vice president of litigation.

Kerri Ruttenberg will join the big-box retailer July 1 from Jones Day, where she is a partner and head of litigation for the firm’s D.C. office. Ruttenberg, who succeeds Mike Bennett, who retired last year, will relocate to Northwest Arkansas for the position, according to a notice that Karen Roberts, Walmart’s executive vice president and general counsel, distributed Thursday to the company’s global governance team.