PRINCETON, NJ, February 25, 2009  –  Ann Reichelderfer, Esq., a Shareholder in Stevens & Lee’s Estates and Trusts Department, was named Chair of the Princeton Area Community Foundation. Ms. Reichelderfer will serve a two-year term. She previously served as Vice-Chair and has been on the board of the Foundation for the past five years. The Community Foundation manages nearly $50 million of charitable funds, including endowment funds on behalf of 20 charities based in the region. In 2008 it awarded more than $2.5 million in grants to cultural, educational, social service, health care and environmental agencies in central New Jersey and throughout the nation.

Ms. Reichelderfer heads the Firm’s New Jersey Estates and Trust Group and has been in private practice for more than 30 years. She represents several institutions of higher education in gift planning, trust and estate administration, taxation and regulation compliance. She regularly counsels individual clients on tax and estate planning, estate and trust administration and charitable giving and represents both individuals and institutions in fiduciary litigation.

Ms. Reichelderfer is a founder of the Gift Planning Council of New Jersey, a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC). Ms. Reichelderfer lectures frequently and is an invited speaker throughout the state and the Northeast region discussing estates, trusts and gift planning issues. Recent lectures include: "The Gift You Can't Use: Tales from the Trenches" and "Hot Topics: Gift Planning and Administration," made at the Gift Planning Council of Greater Philadelphia and the Gift Planning Council of New Jersey, respectively, September 2008.

She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A., with honors, from Swarthmore College.


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