It is a privilege and honor to serve as the Employer Co-Chair for our Employee Benefits Committee for the next two ABA years. Thank you to my predecessor co-chair, Stacey Cerrone, for starting me off on the right foot and giving me the tools to succeed in this position. And thank you to my co-chairs: Marie Casciari, Bruce Perlin and Jennie Arnold, for a warm welcome. I am excited to be working alongside such an esteemed, highly motivated group of leaders.
I remember my first Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, where I met many friends from the Committee for the first time. I had been practicing at Trucker Huss, in ERISA litigation, for a few years before I attended the meeting, and I remember the revelation that the Midwinter Meeting was THE conference to be attending every year and feeling that I had been missing out in those early years by not attending! Since then, I’ve come to learn that the Committee is much more than just the Midwinter Meeting.