Susan Bryson is a partner at the Connecticut-based law firm of Wiggin & Dana where she has chaired the Real Estate Environmental and Land Use Department since 1998. She represents clients in all aspects of real estate, real estate finance, and real estate development. For over fifteen years she has been representing for-profit and nonprofit developers in connection with publicly-financed mixed-income and affordable housing developments involving tax credits, tax increment financing, tax-exempt and taxable bonds, and other forms of subsidized financing.
Ms. Bryson was for many years a tutor in clinical studies in the Housing and Community Development Clinic at Yale Law School. During the 2000-2001 academic year, she took a leave of absence from her practice to serve as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, a position which continued for a year following her return to private practice. Ms. Bryson was recently elected to membership in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Bar Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding legal services for the poor, and she has for several years served as chair of its grant-making committee. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Real Estate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, and is a member of the Real Estate Section of the American Bar Association and State Chair of its Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development.

Ms. Bryson graduated from Stanford University in 1970. She received her law degree, with highest honors, from the University of Connecticut Law School in 1977. Following her graduation she clerked for the Honorable Alva P. Loiselle, Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.