Kathryn Laidlaw Named to Duke Board of Trustees
DURHAM, N.C. -- Recent Duke University graduate Kathryn A. Laidlaw has been elected to Duke's Board of Trustees, the university's 37-member governing body.
Her appointment was effective July 1.
Laidlaw, from Katy, Texas, graduated magna cum laude from Duke in May with a bachelor of arts degree in French and European Studies and a minor in Comparative Area Studies. She also earned a certificate in Markets & Management at Duke. She will be joining The Parthenon Group, a strategy consulting firm in Boston, as an associate in September.
While at Duke, Laidlaw was a founding member of the Nasher Museum Student Advisory Board, was executive vice president of the Duke Union and chaired the Union's visual arts committee. She also served as a Duke Student Government legislator, and president of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
During her college summers, Laidlaw interned with a Houston law firm, conducted market research for the outsourced benefits administration firm Ox International, interned with U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson's press office in Washington, D.C., and was a summer associate at The Parthenon Group.
Laidlaw will serve a three-year "young trustee" term, serving as a non-voting member the first year and a voting member the following two years.
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