Ann M. Kappler
BOD- Ann Kappler

Ann M. Kappler

Board Chair

Ann M. Kappler is Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Prudential Financial. Prior to joining Prudential in 2009, Ms. Kappler was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C., where she focused on emerging issues at the intersection of regulation, legislation and litigation. She has held a variety of other roles with expanded responsibilities, including as a litigation partner at Jenner & Block and as general counsel at Fannie Mae.

In addition to the National Health Law Program, Ms. Kappler serves on the Board of Directors of the Pro Bono Partnership and serves as program co-chair for the Georgetown Law Corporate Counsel Institute. She has served on the boards of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs; Appleseed Foundation and Global Rights; and was a longtime member of the board of trustees of the Lowell School in Washington, D.C., where she served as chair. Ms. Kappler is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. She has earned several awards such as 2018 Executive Women of New Jersey Policymakers honoree.

Ms. Kappler graduated from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, and received her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. She clerked for Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Abner Mikva and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun. Ms. Kappler has two children, three stepchildren, and four grandchildren. She lives in Chevy Chase, MD with her husband, Mark Herlihy.