Brian C. Broderick has been a partner at Hemenway & Barnes LLC since 1996, where he serves individuals and their families as legal counselor and private fiduciary.  He serves on the firm’s Management Committee, oversees its Trust Department, and is a Managing Director of the firm’s wholly owned affiliate, Hemenway Trust Company, LLC, a New Hampshire non-depository trust company. 

He and his wife Cathy live in Sherborn, MA, where he pretends to be a farmer and lumberjack.  Their six children tolerate these innocent conceits and are a great help around the place when they come by. 

Charitable and civic interests and activities are a fundamental part of his life.  He serves on the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College and is presently the Chair of the Board’s Compensation Committee.   

He is a Director and the Clerk of the North Bennett Street School.  He is a Proprietor of the Boston Athenaeum.    

In the past he has served on annual funds at various schools (Xaverian Brothers, Newton County Day School of the Sacred Heart, Cathedral High School), and was  the chairman of the Holliston Zoning Board and its Zoning By-Law Study Committee.  While a student at Boston College he worked as an aide in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.   

He was educated at Boston College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and at the Cornell Law School (JD).