Leander is Managing Partner at Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Hartford, CT, representing public school districts, independent schools, colleges, and universities in education and employment matters. In 2022, she was named by CT Governor Ned Lamont as a Commissioner of the CT Judicial Selection Committee and has since been named as Chair of the Commission, which is responsible for seeking and recommending to the governor qualified candidates for nomination as judges in CT courts. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of CBIA, CT’s largest business organization and the third largest in the country. Leander’s recent distinctions include: “The Best Lawyers in America” (2023-2025), as a CT “Super Lawyer: Schools & Education” (2024), Hartford Business Journal’s “Power 50 List” (2022-2024), Corporate Counsel Business Journal’s “50 Womento Watch” (2023) and as the 2022 CT Law Tribune’s “Attorney of the Year.”