Helene L. Kaplan

Helene L. Kaplan retired from the practice of law in 2012. She continued to have her office at the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP. She was the first trustee of Carnegie Corporation of New York to serve a second term as Chair, and upon her retirement in 2007, she became the first Chair to be elected an Honorary Trustee. Kaplan is also a Trustee-at-Large of the American Museum of Natural History, and Trustee Emerita and Chair Emerita of Barnard College.  She is Trustee Emerita of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Commonwealth Fund and the J. Paul Getty Trust. She was a member (and a former Director) of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Kaplan has served as a Director of Exxon Mobil Corporation; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and MetLife, Inc.; May Department Stores Corporation; JPMorgan Chase and Company and its predecessor companies; and Verizon Communications, Inc. and its predecessor companies. She was a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government and chaired its Task Force on Judicial and Regulatory Decision Making. She was a member of the American Philosophical Society. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990 and served as a member of its Trust.