Bruce A. Frederickson served as President of the Institute from 2008 to 2014 and is a partner in the Washington, DC law firm Webster & Fredrickson PLLC. The firm is perhaps most noted for its 25-year sex discrimination class action, Hartman v. Powell, which settled for a record-breaking $508,000,000 plus more than $25 million for 48 claims tried and decided.
A 1973 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr. Frederickson obtained his law degree from the National Law Center, George Washington University, in 1976 with high honors.
Mr. Fredrickson is a Past President of the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, and the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington DC. Since 1986, he has taught trial practice as an adjunct professor of law at the Washington College of Law of the American University.
