Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner

Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner is an attorney, singer-songwriter and author who joined the AWFH board in October of 2022. She served as a Co-Chair for the AWFH 10th Anniversary Celebrasians Fashion Event and the proceeds of her 2022 book, “Odd Simple Beauty” are directed to AWFH. Her books and songs are available at Newtonville Books, Sherman’s Maine Coast Bookshop and online. She is the Senior Associate Attorney at the Office of Management at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, having joined in March 2020. Previously, she served as Acting Deputy General Counsel and Associate General Counsel at the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (“EHS”), having joined as Assistant General Counsel in 2008. Prior to EHS, Chiemi Schroffner had practiced at Burns & Levinson LLP since 1998. Chiemi Schroffner also clerked for Chief Justice Joseph P. Warner at the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Massachusetts Superior Court justices. A native of Hawaii, Chiemi Schroffner is a past president of the Asian American Lawyers of Massachusetts, served on its Board, has also served on the Boston Bar Association Council and as president of the Boston College Law School Alumni Board, also having served on its Board. Chiemi Schroffner chaired the Legal Intern program for EHS, as well as the EHS Diversity Council, the latter for which she received a Certificate of Appreciation from Massachusetts Medicaid. In addition, since 2012, she has served on the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Standing Advisory Committee on Professionalism, and in 2022 was appointed as its Co-Chair, serving in that capacity until the August 2024 SJC repeal of Rule 3:16, which had required a “Practicing with Professionalism” course to be completed by all new MA bar admittees. She has also served on the Board of Trustees for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education since 2019 and is Co-Chair of its Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

In 2022, Chiemi Schroffner was named as part of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (“MLW”) “Circle of Excellence” for its Top Women of Law event, having been previously named as one of MLW’s Top Women of Law in 2013. She was also named a Massachusetts Bar Foundation Life Fellow by its Board of Trustees in 2015. In 2008, the Asian Community Development Corporation presented Chiemi Schroffner with its Excellence in Community Service Award.

Chiemi Schroffner graduated from Boston College (Phi Beta Kappa), summa cum laude, and Boston College Law School (Campbell Fellowship Recipient and White, Inker, Aronson Professional Achievement & Service Award), where she served as Uniform Commercial Code Digest-Journal Revisions Editor and was a member of The Wandr’ng Mistrials acapella group. She is dedicated to expanding horizons, promoting diversity, empathy and connectivity, which includes AWFH’s work to help advance efforts to improve the health and lives of Asian women and their loved ones in the community.