Gutekunst takes office as president of New York State Bar Association

Yonkers resident Claire P. Gutekunst took office as president of the New York State Bar Association on June 1, making her the sixth woman in the association”™s 140-year history to assume the post.

A member of the State Bar Association for 29 years, Gutekunst served as president-elect during the previous year and as treasurer from 2011 to 2013.

Gutekunst, who earned her law degree from Yale Law School, was previously a litigation partner at Proskauer in New York City for nearly 30 years before establishing her practice as an independent mediator and arbitrator in 2012.

Gutekunst will serve a one-year term as president. The 74,000-member New York State Bar Association is the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation.