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Joan Schloss,
617-679-6877, ext. 6810
Joan was appointed as Executive Director by the Board in March 2003. Prior to her appointment, she served as the agency’s General Counsel, a position she held since 1986. Before joining the MTRS, she was Counsel to the Boston Retirement Board. Joan is the past president of the Massachusetts Association of Public Pension Attorneys (MAPPA), and served as vice-chair of the Resolutions Committee for the National Council on Teacher Retirement (NCTR).
Joan has been a frequent lecturer and panelist at educational seminars and has served as a faculty member of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Professional Education Programs. She has also participated as a speaker at the conferences of the Massachusetts Association of Contributory Retirement Systems (MACRS) as well as at various seminars presented by NCTR and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE).
A graduate of Suffolk University Law School, Joan earned her Bachelor of Arts from Boston University. She has co-authored several articles on Massachusetts public retirement issues, including: “The Massachusetts Public Employee Retirement Plan and Domestic Relations Orders,” Benefits Issues in Family Law, Suffolk University Law School Advanced Legal Studies Journal, and “The Last Straw as a Triggering Event for Accidental Disability: Must it be More than an Ordinary Activity of Daily Life,” Massachusetts Public Pension Law Quarterly. She is the co-author of the “Retirement Law” chapter in MCLE’s book, Massachusetts Municipal Law.