Judith A. Saxe

, AEP®, CAP®

Managing Director

Judith Saxe is the director of research and education for wealth strategies and a senior wealth strategist at CIBC Private Wealth.

In this role, she leads firm-wide educational initiatives related to the work of the Wealth Strategies Group, including estate, gift, philanthropic, business succession, fiduciary and legacy planning. She also works collaboratively with clients and their advisors to create integrated estate plans, guide client families in evolving a healthy wealth culture and developing the rising generation, all as part of CIBC Private Wealth Management’s integrated wealth management process.

Judith has over 30 years of industry experience counseling high net worth individuals, corporate executives, owners of closely held businesses and multinationals on sophisticated estate planning designs and strategies. She joined the firm in 2003 from Ernst & Young LLP, where she was the New England-area director of estate and business succession planning. Previously, Judith practiced law with a specialty in estate planning at major firms in New York City.

More recently, she served on the board of directors of the National Association of Estate Planning Councils (NAEPC), following an 11-year tenure on the executive committee and board of directors of The Boston Estate Planning Council (BEPC), where she was named as president from 2013-2014. BEPC is one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious interdisciplinary estate planning councils, with over 700 members in the greater Boston community. She continues to be active with these organizations.

In addition to presenting on a range of wealth strategies-related topics, Judith has also written articles for or been quoted in national and local publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Private Wealth magazine and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She has also chaired or been a panelist for numerous programs, including for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), the Massachusetts Bar Association and BEPC, and is a contributor to several MCLE treatises.

Judith earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law. In addition to these degrees, in 2008 she was awarded the Accredited Estate Planner® (AEP®) designation by NAEPC in recognition of both her experience in and her interdisciplinary approach to estate planning, and in 2018, she obtained the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®) designation through the American College of Financial Services.