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Amy Lin Meyerson '94 JD

Practicing Attorney, President

Connecticut Bar Association

 

Amy Lin Meyerson is the President of the Connecticut Bar Association (2020-2021). She is a Past Chair of the American Bar Association’s Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division (2014-2015), a Past President of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) (2005-2006), and a Past President of the NAPABA Law Foundation (2016-2018). Amy founded the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association in 2000 and the CAPABA Educational Foundation in 2006. She served as a Commissioner on the Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission of Connecticut (2010-2012). Amy is the Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Representatives and Observers to the United Nations and serves in the ABA House of Delegates and on its Scope and Correlation of Work Committee. She is a founding member of the UConn Law School Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and served as one of its first co-presidents (1991).

She practices business and general corporate law in Weston, Connecticut as a sole practitioner. Martindale-Hubbell awarded her with an AV rating, which identifies a lawyer with high to preeminent legal ability, integrity and overall professional excellence (2004 to present).

Amy was honored to be included in the Gallery of Pioneers at the University of Connecticut School of Law in September 2019. She received the 2015 CAPABA Ivan K. Fong Founders Award, a 2012 NAPABA Women’s Leadership Award, was named a Top Lawyer in Fairfield County in 2010 to 2013, selected as one of NAPABA’s Best Lawyers Under 40 in 2003, and received a New Leaders in the Law Award from the Connecticut Law Tribune in 2002. She received the 2006 Edwin Archer Randolph Diversity Award from the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity along with a Proclamation from then Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell proclaiming April 26, 2006 as Amy Lin Meyerson Day in Connecticut.

She earned her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and received her A.B. with distinction from Duke University. Amy is admitted to the bars of Connecticut, Georgia, and the District of Columbia, the D.C. Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.