Saturday, January 13, 2018

Death of Charlotte P. Armstrong (1/13/18)

This obituary, here, was posted on Charlotte P. Armstrong.  Excerpts are:
Charlotte Pierce Armstrong, 90, born March 13, 1927, passed away peacefully  Dec. 8, 2017, at Quarry Hill, where she resided for the past four years. She was a distinguished attorney, adviser on corporate governance, committed philanthropist, and dedicated to academia and women in the workforce. 
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In 1953, she received her law degree from Harvard University, in the first class to admit women to the Law School. 
Mrs. Armstrong spent her early career in Washington, D.C., where she served as a trial attorney in the tax division of the U.S Department of Justice. She continued her career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. She then became an attorney at the Law Offices of Joseph E. Bachelder, where she handled senior-level employment, compensation arrangements, and claims of business, securities and tax laws of senior executive compensation. Subsequently, Mrs. Armstrong worked at KPMG, LLP as director of practice development and technical resources for the human resources consulting group. She also served as assistant vice president at The Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mrs. Armstrong later became a senior consultant with the Ross Companies and ended her prominent career as senior managing director with the Brock Capital Group LLC in New York City.