Candace Beinecke is Senior Partner of
Hughes Hubbard & Reed, where in 1999 she became the first female head of a major New York firm.
In November 2020 she was named Co-Chair of the Board of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...
with
Hamilton James, effective January 12, 2021, the first time the museum had two chairs and the first time its Chair was a woman.
She has also served as the Board Chair of the
Wallace Foundation since 2017.
Beinecke grew up in
Paterson, New Jersey
Paterson ( ) is the largest City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[Rutgers Law School
Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University, with classrooms in Newark and Camden, New Jersey. It is the largest public law school and the 10th largest law school, overall, in the United States. Each class in the three-year J.D. pr ...]
in 1970. She is the wife of Frederick Beinecke.
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21st-century American women
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