Kerr joins the firm next month as marketing and comms officer and will report to WF&W business development manager Simon Bastin.
She replaces Liz Chappell who left to join US firm McDermott Will & Emery last month.
Bastin said WF&W was keen to use communications to promote its main activities in shipping, but also to draw attention to the other areas in which it is active such as energy.
