Ellen Woodbury Biographical Sketch
Ellen Woodbury received her B.A. in History from Radcliffe College/Harvard University in
1969. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1980 and her M.A. in
Politics from Princeton University in 1981. Ellen practiced law as a corporate litigator in New
York from 1981 through 1990. In 1991 she moved to Washington DC where she worked until
her retirement first as an associate, then as counsel and partner in Chadbourne & Parke’s
Washington office specializing in arbitration and litigation of reinsurance and insurance
disputes.