Candace Beinecke is Senior Partner of

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, where in 1999 she became the first female head of a major New York firm. In November 2020 she was named Co-Chair of the Board of the

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with Hamilton James, effective January 12, 2021, the first time the museum had two chairs and the first time its Chair was a woman. She has also served as the Board Chair of the

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since 2017. Beinecke grew up in

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in 1970. She is the wife of Frederick Beinecke.

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