Candace Beinecke

Candace Beinecke "joined the board of directors of The Wallace Foundation in 2007.

"Candace is the chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. She was named to her current position in 1999, the first woman to chair a major New York law firm.

"Beinecke serves as chair of Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisors LLC First Eagle Funds, Inc., ranked among the leading U.S. public mutual fund families. She also serves as a board member of ALSTOM (Paris), the French transport and power company, of Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE), of Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. and Rockefeller & Co., Inc. She is a director, vice chair and member of the executive committee of the Partnership for New York City, a director of the Fund for New York's Future Inc., a member of the Board of Advisors, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, and a director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.

"Candace is a member of the Women's Forum, has been honored by the New York County Lawyers’ Association as an Outstanding Women of the Bar and received a Women of Power and Influence award from NYC NOW. She is included in such publications as The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA for her corporate, governance and M&A expertise and was recently selected by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America."

She is married to Frederick Beinecke. [1]