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Ann Taylor Schwing has retired after almost 10 years as of counsel for Best Best & Krieger LLP. in Sacramento, California. Before BBK, she was of counsel at McDonough Holland & Allen. Her practice was limited to appeals, motions, and research.

She is author of Open Meeting Laws 3d (2011), California Affirmative Defenses (2020, now updated by Martin D. Carr) and The Regulation of Money Managers (with Tamar Frankel and Arthur Laby, annually updated), and editor of Tamar Frankel's Securitization (2005).

She was a Commissioner and Secretary with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission from early 2006 until she term-limited at the end of 2016 and has served on other nonprofit boards — American Inns of Court Foundation and The Land Trust of Napa County where she is also a multi-committee member, volunteer and land and conservation easement donor.

She received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit in 2004. She has been a master and member of the governing board of the Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court from 1989 to mid-2014 when she and her husband Charlie moved to Napa.

Ann and her husband, Charlie, now volunteer often at the Archer Taylor Preserve and remain active with friends and neighbors.