Freddie Mac has named 20-year human resources veteran Jacqueline Welch as head of human resources, diversity and inclusion (HRDI) and chief diversity officer (CDO), as well as a new member of the company's senior operating committee.

"We're very excited to have Jacqueline succeed to the leadership of our HRDI division and serve as our CDO," Freddie Mac CEO Donald Layton said in a press release. "She is the right person at the right time to help Freddie Mac improve the quality and diversity of our workforce and the culture in which we operate."

Welch joined Freddie Mac in 2016 after serving as Turner Broadcasting's senior vice president of international human resources. 

"I firmly believe that a company is only as good as its people, and Freddie Mac is no different," Welch said in a statement. "So it's vitally important that we enable our diverse perspectives to drive the execution of the company's top goals of building a better company and a better housing finance system. I'm excited by the work that Freddie Mac has already done to foster an organizational culture that competes and wins, and I'm ready to push that strategy forward."

According to Freddie Mac, Welch will lead the company's diversity and inclusion strategy for its workforce and supplier diversity programs in her new role.