Stacy E. Singer

The Northern Trust Company

Singer is a Senior Vice President, National Practice Leader for Trust Services and Wealth Advisory, at The Northern Trust Company, where she works closely with trust professionals on all aspects of the delivery of fiduciary services to clients nationally. She previously served as the National Director of Estate Settlement Services at Northern Trust, which she joined in 2003.

Singer was previously a Vice President in the Estate Administration Division at Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago, where she handled the administration of estates of decedents, minors, and persons with disabilities. Prior to Harris, she was a member of the estate and succession planning department at Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., where she focused on estate and succession planning strategies, estate and trust administration and guardianship for minors and disabled adults. She has been appointed as a guardian ad litem in both decedent and disabled estates and as a special administrator in decedent estates.

Singer is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and the past President of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Estate Planning Council. She is on the faculty of the Heckerling Graduate Program in Estate Planning, served on the faculty of the American Bankers Association National Trust School for five years, served as an adjunct professor in the LLM Program for Tax and Employee Benefits at The John Marshall Law School (now the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law), and is Past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Trust Law Committee.

Singer is a regular speaker for IICLE^® and the American Law Institute (formerly ALI-ABA) and has previously spoken at the Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute, Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Chicago Estate Planning Council, Hawaii Tax Institute, Southern Federal Tax Conference, and a broad spectrum of other civic and professional groups, including the Internal Revenue Service. She has written extensively for numerous publications, including Trusts & Estates, Advancing Philanthropy, Estate Planning, and numerous IICLE^® publications. She holds a BA, with distinction, from the University of Michigan and received her JD from the University of Michigan Law School. She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Technion Institute and the Hadley School for the Blind and chairs the professional advisor committee for the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.