Business & Corporate
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: An Interview with Doneene Keemer Damon
Doneene Keemer Damon, a partner at Richards, Layton & Finger in Wilmington, Delaware, has won more awards than she can count on two hands for her leadership in both the legal community and the community at large. This year, she won the prestigious ABA Jean Allard Glass Cutter Award, presented annually to an exceptional woman business lawyer who has made significant contributions to the profession and the ABA Business Law Section. Shortly after that, the National Association of Professional Women honored her as the 2015–2016 inductee into its VIP Woman of the Year Circle. Doneene is a nationally known leader on issues relating to statutory and common law trusts. When she made partner in 1999, she was the first African American to make partner in a major Delaware law firm.