OMAHA — Colleen Batcheler has been promoted to executive vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary for ConAgra Foods, Inc.

Ms. Batcheler joined ConAgra in June 2006 as vice-president and chief securities counsel, taking on additional corporate secretary responsibilities in September 2006. She was promoted to senior vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary in 2008.

Prior to joining ConAgra she was vice-president and corporate secretary at Albertson’s, Inc., associate counsel with The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and an associate with the law firm of Jones Day.

Ms. Batcheler received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York College at Fredonia and a juris doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.