Laurie A. Carter (Photo by Nan Melville)

Laurie A. Carter, Juilliard's administrative director of jazz studies and vice president for student and legal affairs, was honored as one of the Outstanding Women of the Bar at the New York County Lawyers' Association's 90th annual dinner. The keynote speaker for the event—held on December 14, 2004, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and attended by more than 1,400 judges, lawyers, and other guests—was Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The 46 honorees included Mary Jo White (former U.S. Attorney), Maryann S. Freedman and Lorraine P. Tharp (former presidents of the New York State Bar Association), Louise M. Parent (general counsel of American Express Company), and Judith A. Lockhart (managing partner of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP). The recipient of the William Nelson Cromwell Award, also presented at the dinner, was Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of the State of New York.