Nancy B. Gardner portrait

LAWYER DIRECTORY

NANCY B. GARDINER
DIRECTOR, SELECT CLIENT SERVICES

DIRECT DIAL: 617-557-9767
EMAIL: ngardiner@hembar.com

NANCY B. GARDINER is a partner and is Director of Select Client Services, with administrative responsibility for Hemenway & Barnes’ Family Office Services, Philanthropic Advisory Services and Personal Client Services. As part of her work with Hemenway & Barnes, lawyers and clients, she oversees the administration of The Jane’s Trust. She practiced tax law from 1981 until 1993, first at Herrick & Smith and then at Hemenway & Barnes where she focused on tax and corporate work for nonprofit organizations. From 1993 until 1997 Ms. Gardiner served as Executive Director of The Brookline Foundation, a local education foundation providing financial and professional development support to the Brookline Public Schools. She returned to Hemenway & Barnes in September 1997. In addition, from 1994 to 1998 she was a lecturer at the Carroll School of Management of Boston College, teaching Advanced Topics in Nonprofit Management. Ms. Gardiner has written and lectured on topics related to nonprofit management and family offices.

She has served on several boards of directors, including The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where she was a member of the Executive Committee and Clerk, The North Bennet Street School and The Brookline Foundation. She currently serves as President of the Trustees of the Winsor School and is a member of the Board of Overseers of The Brookline Foundation. Ms. Gardiner graduated from Harvard College (magna cum laude) in 1978 and from the University Of Virginia School Of Law in 1981, where she was an editor of The Virginia Tax Review.