Event Date:
Start at 11:30 AMJanuary 4, 2026
AADC NJ Regional Connection Group
Northern NJ New Year’s Gathering Hosted by Jennifer Bender ’93
Welcome the New Year by meeting other area alumnae and friends. We will share refreshments and socializing, and hear updates from the AADC leaders. The event address will be shared in the registration confirmation e-mail.
About Jennifer Bender ’93
Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Emerging Markets, The Prudential Insurance Company of America.
Throughout a distinguished legal career, Jennifer C. Bender ‘93, Esquire, has been a role model through service to the AADC and her community. Jennifer’s outstanding legal career began when she served as a law clerk to the first woman New Jersey Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Marie L. Garibaldi. Her interest then took her to London for more than a decade, where she became a senior attorney advising clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border transactions, including tender offers, bankruptcy and joint ventures. Currently, she is the Deputy Chief Legal Officer of Prudential Retirement Strategies, where she leads a team supporting Prudential’s Institutional Retirement Strategies business and reinsurance solutions.
Jennifer was inducted into the AADC Society of Excellence in 2024. She received the AADC Alumnae Recognition Award in 2020 and the AADC Medal in 2017. She served on the AADC Board of Directors as a member (2014-2018) and as Treasurer (2018-2020). As Treasurer, Jennifer worked to ensure financial accountability to the AADC, was a Trustee of the Douglass Fund, and a member of the AADC Investment Committee. She also currently serves on the Rutgers Board of Trustees.
