Attorney Ann Robinson of Preti Flaherty has been appointed director of the
Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. She is one of eight directors appointed from
the public sector by the Federal Housing Finance Board, the Bank's regulator in
Washington, D.C.
Ms. Robinson is a resident partner in the firm’s Augusta office and has been
a member of the Legislative, Regulatory & Governmental Services Practice
Group at Preti Flaherty since joining the firm in 1988. She specializes in
legislative and regulatory law and has extensive experience in insurance,
financial and professional regulation issues. Ms. Robinson was recently
elected to the firm’s Management Committee. She is a former member of the
Maine Human Rights Commission.
“Ann’s appointment to the FHLB is well deserved and I am confident she will
help govern wisely,” said Harold Pachios, managing partner of Preti
Flaherty.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (www.fhlbboston.com) is a $39 billion,
cooperatively owned wholesale bank for housing finance in the six New England
states. Its mission is to support the residential-mortgage and
community-development lending activities of its members, which include over 450
financial institutions across New England. To accomplish its mission, the Bank
utilizes private-sector capital to provide members and other qualified customers
with reliable access to low-cost wholesale funds, liquidity, a competitive
outlet for the sale of loans, special lending programs, technical assistance,
and other products and services.
The Bank is governed by an 18-member board of directors. All directors are
New Englanders. In addition to the eight directors appointed by the Federal
Housing Finance Board, ten of the directors are elected by member financial
institutions.
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Ann graduated from Brown University and earned her
law degree at the University of Maine School of Law.
Preti Flaherty has offices in Portland, Bath and Augusta, Maine, Concord, NH and Boston, MA. With more than 80 attorneys, the firm counsels clients in the areas of business law, energy, environmental, estate planning, health care, intellectual property, labor and employment, legislative and regulatory, litigation, technology and telecommunications.
