Amazon names first black executive to Bezos’s ruling council

Amazon.com Inc. has named its first Black woman, Alicia Boler Davis, to the company’s top leadership council.

This is the second executive shuffle in the last year that elevated women at Amazon following criticism of its largely white, male upper ranks.

Boler Davis, who oversees much of Amazon’s warehouse network as vice president of global fulfillment, was among the three executives named on Friday to Amazon’s S-team, the group of leaders who set the company’s priorities alongside Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos. Boler Davis, 51, joined Amazon last year after a long stint at General Motors Co.