Across the country, most state and local bar associations that are larger than New Haven’s, which has 1,400 members. But few, if any, have a more engaged, enthusiastic and effective leader than Executive Director Carolyn Breen Witt. That’s easy to conclude from her 15-year track record, and the fact that the National Association of Bar Executives has just elected her its president for the 2010-11 fiscal year. The NABE provides a forum for members to address their challenges together, and to share innovations and “best practices.”
Witt, a Greenwich native, graduated from the University of Virginia with undergraduate degrees in drama and medieval history. As a paralegal, she focused on federal complex litigation cases, capped by four years working for federal Judge Lawrence E. Walsh, in the Office of Independent Counsel during the Iran-Contra affair.
