About Mary Ryan

Mary Jane Ryan is a 1978 honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law where she concentrated in the study of private and public sector labor law. Upon graduation from law school she served as a Law Clerk to the judges of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut. She also served as Vice-President and General Counsel to the Associated General Contractors of Connecticut, Inc., a trade association comprised of major commercial and industrial companies that engaged in multi-employer bargaining with Connecticut’s various construction unions. Since then, she has engaged exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law in the public and private sector, representing management in contract negotiations, binding interest arbitration under M.E.R.A., S.E.R.A., and the Teachers’ Negotiation Act, contractual grievance and arbitration proceedings, and other employment law matters, including unfair labor practice proceedings before the state and federal boards of labor relations and discrimination cases before CHRO and EEOC, as well as in state and federal court. For the last several years her practice has been heavily concentrated in the representation of social service and health care providers.

Ms. Ryan has been an adjunct professor of labor relations at Post University and has served as instructor for certificate programs in human resources management and personnel relations and the law. She has lectured before a variety of trade and professional associations on numerous labor law related topics including privacy issues in the workplace, sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination and wrongful termination. She is admitted to practice both in Connecticut and the State of Washington.

Ms. Ryan has served on the Board of directors of Shakesperience, Productions, Inc. and on the Town of Burlington Planning and Zoning Board. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Southmayd Home as the Chair of its Personnel Committee and as Treasurer of the Burlington Republican Town Committee.