Wednesday, December 4, 2019
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Plated Lunch Included!
Guest / Non-Member Fee: $45; Council Members are Free
Bonnie Stewart is the Executive Director of the Connecticut Society of CPAs (CTCPA). She will provide us with a legislative update of what is happening or may be happening at the Capitol.
Stewart heads up a dynamic team of professionals at the Connecticut Society of CPAs, and its affiliated Accounting Scholarship Foundation, which represents approximately 6,000 individuals in public practice, business and industry, government, and education. She is responsible for promoting and supporting CPAs though Advocacy, Community and Education efforts.
Stewart managed CBIA's lobbying staff and represents business interests before the state legislature. She joined CBIA as an attorney specializing in labor and employment law and represents businesses views before legislators, the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services, the Workers' Compensation Commission, the Connecticut Department of Labor, and the Connecticut Department of Insurance.
Stewart serves on numerous legislative task forces studying healthcare, paid family and medical leave, medical privacy and noncompete agreements. She has been a member and continues to serve on numerous boards and councils including the NAM/AFL-CIO Labor Management Discussion Group on Workers' Compensation, the Employment Security Advisory Board, the Connecticut Child Day Care Council, and the executive committee for the Connecticut Bar Association's labor and employment law section. Stewart is vice chair of the Board of Directors for the UWC and chairs the state's Second Injury Fund Advisory Board.
Before joining CBIA in 1988, Stewart worked for the office of the Connecticut Attorney General. She received her Juris Doctor from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH, and her bachelor's degree in science from the University of Connecticut.
Venue: Thames Club, 290 State Street, New London, CT 06320