Alexandra D. Korry

In 2021 scholarships were established by Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) and Duke Law School to honor her contributions.

Korry was married to Robin Panovka, an mergers and acquisitions partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and has two daughters Rebecca and Sarah. Korry died on September 29, 2020, at her home in Westport, Connecticut of ovarian cancer.

She served as the head of the New York State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She led the Committee to publish influential reports on educational equity, solitary confinement, and police accountability. Her report issued in December 2014 helped end solitary confinement of juveniles in New York.

Following graduating from Duke Law School, Korry joined Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1993 was among the first women elected partners in the firm’s Mergers and Acquisition Group. She was recognized as one of the leading corporate lawyers in the US, advising on major transactions on Wall Street, and in 2021 Lawdragon included Korry in its 2021 Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame.

Korry earned her bachelor’s degree in 1979 from Harvard University. While at Harvard she became the second female managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. In 1980, she received her master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics, after working briefly as a reporter at Newsweek and The Washington Post she graduated from the Duke University School of Law in 1986.

Alexandra D. Korry (born March 11, 1959 - September 29, 2020) was an American mergers and acquisitions lawyer, civil rights advocate and educator.