Gresham’s Chief Wealth Strategist, Kim Kamin, Was Elected to ACTEC Board of Regents

CHICAGO, IL, March 17, 2020 —Gresham Partners announced today that Kim Kamin, Principal & Chief Wealth Strategist, was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (ACTEC) at its Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, FL on March 5, 2020. Kim is currently the youngest Regent, she was nominated to the Board after fewer than ten years in the College, and she is the only non-Academic Fellow serving as a Regent who is not with a law firm or trust company.

Gresham’s President and Chief Investment Officer, Ted Neild, commented, “We are extremely pleased about this well-deserved recognition of Kim’s very active involvement with ACTEC and her national reputation as a leading estate planning professional.” He added, “Kim’s extensive experience and expertise provides significant value to the families we serve as a fully independent investment and wealth management firm.”

Elected an ACTEC Fellow in 2010, Kim has presented on numerous estate planning topics at ACTEC meetings and has served as Chair of the New Fellows Steering Committee, Chair of the Wealth Strategist and Fiduciary Counsel Subcommittee, and Co-Chair of the Legal Education Committee. She currently serves on the Program and Legal Education Committees.

ACTEC is a professional society of approximately 2,500 peer-elected trust and estate lawyers who have demonstrated the highest level of integrity, commitment to the profession, competence and experience .Fellows are selected on the basis of experience, professional reputation and ability in the fields of trusts and estates and on the basis of having made substantial contributions to these fields through lecturing, writing, teaching and bar activities.

As Gresham’s Chief Wealth Strategist, Kim leads its development and implementation of estate, wealth transfer, philanthropic, educational and fiduciary planning activities. Previously she was a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP where she practiced in trusts and estates for many years. Kim is an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, on the Editorial Advisory Board of Trusts and Estates Magazine, Vice-President for the Chicago Estate Planning Council, on advisory boards for multiple local philanthropic organizations and a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. A frequent speaker and writer nationally, Kim co-authored the Leimberg Library Tools & Techniques book, Estate Planning for Modern Families. She received her B.A. from Stanford University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.