The National Association of Bond Lawyers announced Tuesday that it has hired Linda Holtz Wyman as its chief operating officer.
Wyman will begin work on Nov. 8, managing and overseeing all financial and business planning activities, human resource functions, and office operations for NABL.
“We welcome Linda to NABL and are pleased that she will be overseeing the transition to our newly consolidated office in Washington, D.C.,” said Kathleen McKinney, the group’s president and a shareholder at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd PA in Greenville, S.C. “Linda’s many years of experience in association management make her well-qualified to lead NABL through the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.”
Most recently, Wyman was COO of the National Utility Contractors Association, which represents utility and excavation contractors.
She has more than 20 years of association management experience, NABL said.
It does not appear that Wyman had any direct previous experience with muni bonds, but NUCA was involved in a number of recent developments in the bond sector, including lobbying Congress on behalf of the “extenders” bill still pending in Congress that would extend several expiring or expired muni bond provisions. That bill would extend the Build America Bonds program, the increased small-issuer limit for bank-qualified bonds, and the recovery zone bond program, among others.
“We wish her every success and look forward to working with her to reauthorize the highly successful Build America Bonds program,” NUCA stated on its website.
NABL is hiring Wyman as it closes its Chicago office where it was founded and shifts its operations to the nation’s capital.
The group is scheduled on Wednesday to begin its annual bond attorneys workshop, this time in San Antonio.
NABL was created as a nonprofit corporation in 1979. Its mission is to educate its members and others in the law as it relates to muni bonds and other municipal obligations, as well as providing a forum for the exchange of ideas in the field and recommendations for improvements.
