Background
Wriston, Kathryn Dineen was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. Daughter of Robert Emmet and Carolyn (Bareham) Dineen.
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Kathryn Dineen Wriston
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Student, University Geneva, 1958-1959; Bachelor cum laude, Smith College, 1960; Bachelor of Laws, University of Michigan, 1963.
Career
Associate, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, 1963-1968. Board directors Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, member insurance products and marketing committee, 1986-1989, member audit committee, since 1989, member investment and finance policy committee, 1989-1995. Board directors Santa Fe Energy Resources, Inc., member audit committee, since 1990, chairman, 1990-1993, 95-, member nominating committee, since 1990, compensation committee, since 1998.
Member conceptual framework task force Indep. Standards Board, since 1998. Trustee Finance Accounting Foundation, 1992-1997, member selection committee, 1992-1997, member audit committee, 1992-1996, chairman, 1993-1996, chairman development committee, 1996-1997, member finance committee, 1994-1997. member Executive Committee, 1996-1997.
Member task force on timely finance reporting guidanace Finance Accounting Studies Board, 1982-1983, member board agenda advising committee, 1981-1985, member process andstructure committee, 1981-1985, chairman, 1983-1985, member of advisory county, 1981-1985. Member Executive Committee CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, since 1994. Board directors Waccamaw Corporation.
Board directors The Stanley Works, member public policy and finance and pension committees, 1996-1997, chairman audit committee, since 1997, member Executive Committee, since 1997, board affairs county, since 1996.
Achievements
Membership
Member visiting committee University of Michigan Law School, since 1973. Trustee Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 1971-1977, 78-81, vice chairman of the board of trustees, 1980-1981, member student affairs committee, 1971-1977, chairman, 1974-1977, member of faculty affairs committee, 1978-1981, member grievance committee, 1971-1977, 78-81, member commission on law school, 1978-1981. Member eastern region selection panel President Commision on White House Fellowships, 1981-1983, chairman, 1982-1983.
Member business committee National Center for State Court Justices, 1982-1988. Board overseers Rand Institute for Civil Justice, 1985-1993. Trustee John A. Hartford Foundation, since 1991, member grant committee, since 1991, vice chairman, since 1992, chairman evaluation committee, since 1998, member audit committee, since 1992, chairman, since 1993, secretary, since 1996.
Member Governor Wilson's New York Little Hoover Commission, 1974. Member American Bar Association, National Association Accts., Practicing Law Institute (executive since 1976, member programs and publications committee, chairman since 1979, member membership committee 1976-1979, chairman 1977-1979, member nominating committee 1978, 81-85, vice president, since 1985, member bar review courses 1978-1979, member finance committee since 1989, member American Law Institute/American Bar Association subcommittee on American law network 1989-1991), Finance Women's Association New York, New York County Lawyers Association (legal aid committee 1972-1976), New York State Bar Association, Association of Bar of City of New York
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Connections
Married Walter B. Wriston, March 14, 1968. 1 stepchild.
