F. Hunter Creech has been renamed to the position of vice president and general counsel of Newport News Shipbuilding. Mr. Creech, who will report to president Edward J. Campbell, joined the shipyard in 1964 as assistant to the general counsel. He was appointed general counsel in 1970, and elected a vice president in 1974.

He took a leave of absence from the company in February 1977 for personal reasons, and returned in April 1979 as special counsel. Before joining Newport News, he served as an attorney for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, as a contract administrator with Kaman Aircraft, and as an attorney for Ingalls Shipbuilding.