Kathryn Dineen Wriston

Kathy is predeceased by her beloved husband, Walter B. Wriston, former CEO of Citibank, who passed away in 2005. Kathy was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 1, 1939, to the late Robert Emmet Dineen and Carolyn Bareham Dineen. She spent her childhood years in Syracuse and also in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She later attended and graduated from Smith College in 1960 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1963. In her early career, she practiced law at the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP. Later in her professional career, she served on the corporate boards of Federated Department Stores, Goodyear, Northwestern Mutual, Southern Pacific, Stanley Works, Union Carbide and WR Grace & Co. She also served as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, the Practising Law Institute, Fordham University and the John A. Hartford Foundation. She is survived by her loving sister, the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, of the 5th Circuit United States Court of Appeals, and devoted brother, Robert E. Dineen, Jr. She is also survived by Walter's daughter, Catherine "Cassy" Wriston Quintal, her husband, Richard Quintal and their children, Christopher W. Quintal, his wife, Sara, and Barbara Catherine "Katy" Quintal, all of whom she cared for dearly. In addition, she is survived by her brother in-law, the Honorable Thomas M. Reavley, her sister-in-law, Jeanne C. Olivier, and three nephews, James D., Philip D. and Stephen E. Randall and two grand nieces.