Lucy D. Bickford

Senior Vice President

Lucy Bickford is a senior wealth strategist at CIBC Private Wealth in Chicago with over 10 years of industry experience. In this role, she works closely with relationship managers and clients to develop and implement estate and wealth transfer strategies as part of the firm’s integrated wealth management process. 

Prior to joining the firm, Lucy was an attorney at ArentFox Schiff LLP, where she focused her practice on estate planning and estate and trust administration for high-net-worth individuals. In that role, Lucy advised individual clients, multi-generation family groups and fiduciaries on a wide range of estate and trust related issues. She prepared comprehensive estate plans to achieve wealth planning goals, transfer tax strategies and business succession planning.

Lucy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural anthropology from Duke University and a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.