Deborah Tedford Esq. 2 posts 0 comments

Deborah J. Tedford is an attorney and principal in the Tedford Law Firm of Mystic, Connecticut.  She graduated from Yale University, cum laude in 1972 as a member of one of the first classes to include women, and from Boston University School of Law in 1976. She is also a qualified mediator, having completed 40 hours of formal mediation training.

Deb was elected as an ACTEC fellow in 1992, a fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation in 1995; and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2012.  She recently served three years as Chair of the Elder Law Committee of ACTEC and is a Regent of the College. She is a member of ACTEC’s Fiduciary Litigation Committee and has served on a number of other administrative committees for the college.  Currently she is serving as ACTEC’s observer to the Uniform Law Commission’s re- writing of the national guardianship and conservatorship act.

Deb is a frequent speaker at the state and national levels on topics related to the field of trust law, including special needs trusts, estate and gift taxation, social security and undue influence in probate matters.