Susan Briggs is a retired estate planning attorney, having been a partner in the international law firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP for more than 30 years. She is a retired fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an inactive member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco. She received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of California Berkeley and her J.D. degree from the University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Susan is the Chair of The Flora Family Foundation, a private charitable foundation the stated purpose of which “is to promote the wellbeing of people everywhere by supporting selected activities of charitable organizations and institutions as determined by members of the Board and Family Council.” She is Vice Chair of The Diana Dollar Knowles Foundation, a private charitable foundation which supports the arts and other activities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Becoming a Successful Board Chair: Tips and Advice from Your Peers
Posted on February 9, 2017 by Alice Buhl, Susan Briggs, Nancy Cable, J.H. Dow Davis
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