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Ann Fisher is a pioneer among women lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1984, she became one of the first women partners at S&C and the first woman partner in the Firm's General Practice group. Today, Ann is closely involved in improving the quality of life for all women lawyers at the Firm. Ann specializes in domestic and international securities transactions. She counts among her most notable transactions the Intelsat privatization of the late 1990s, which was especially noteworthy because of the high percentage of women lawyers on the S&C team. Since the late 1980s, Ann has worked on Firm initiatives that address issues of interest to women. She helped draft S&C's first part-time policy, which gives women lawyers the opportunity to work part-time while raising children, thereby maintaining a more equal focus on both their career and home life. Ann played a major role in the creation of the S&C daycare facility, including formulating the initial childcare proposal and promoting the idea within the firm. Ann's interest in women's issues stems from her own experiences early in her career when she sometimes brought her children to work. "When my daughter was an infant, she used to come to the office on weekends to help negotiations for Renault's sale of American Motors to Chrysler. More than once, her mere presence kept meeting participants from coming to blows. More importantly, the people from Renault, who missed their own children, enjoyed playing with Liz, feeding her and even changing her diapers. Since that time, she has accompanied me on many business trips, including Paris, Toronto, and Mexico." Asked how she manages children and work, Ann simply replies, "I wouldn't give up either one of them." Ann also devotes considerable time to organizing a cocktail party series at which speakers discuss topics of interest to professional women, and works with other partners to improve the recruitment and retention of women at S&C. Outside of work, Ann is a member of the Committee on Women in the Profession of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the boards of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble and the Naromi Land Trust, and formerly was a member of the Executive Committee of the Lying-In Hospital (OB-GYN branch of New York Presbyterian Hospital), the board of The Acting Company, and alumnae board of The Spence School, a girls' school in Manhattan. She enjoys spending time with her children, [ages 17 and 14,] and her four dogs and numerous cats. Ann lives in the city, but spends many weekends and holidays at her summer home in Connecticut, where she gardens and horseback rides. | 