Areas of Practice include:

Estates, Trusts & Personal Planning
Health Care Law
Wealth Management

Anne B. Ruffer has been at Mackenzie Hughes since 1987. She is a partner in the firm and a member of the Executive Committee. Her practice focuses on estate and trust administration, estate litigation, estate planning, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare proxies, living wills, guardianships, elder law, asset preservation and long-term care planning as well as working with not-for-profits on a variety of matters.

Anne received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1980. She attended Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel from 1978 to 1979. She went on to study at Syracuse University College of Law, where she graduated high honors with a Juris Doctorate in 1983. Anne was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1984.

Anne is a member of Onondaga County, New York State (Trusts and Estates Section and Elder Law) and American Bar Associations. She is the Fifth District Delegate to the New York State Bar Association's Elder Law Section. Anne is co-chair of the OCBA Surrogate Court Practice Committee and a member of the OCBA Foundation. She is a member and former treasurer of the Central New York Women's Bar Association. She is currently a member of the DeWitt Community Library Board of Trustees and a trustee for Vera House Foundation, Inc. Anne is a former chairperson for Vera House Foundation, Inc, former member of the Arc Guardianship committee, former President of the Vera House Board of Directors, and has served as a member-at-large and liaison to the United Way.

Anne is the recipient of the 2005 Onondaga County Bar Association's Distinguished Pro Bono Award and 2006 New York State Bar Association's President's Pro Bono Service Attorney Award.

Anne has also spent time co-authoring the tax news column for "Elder Law Attorney," a publication of the New York State Bar Association. Column titles have included, "College Choice Tuition Program," "New York's SOP Tax: What Do We Do Now?," "Home Sale Exclusion: Tax Issues to Consider," "Some Tax Issues Which Affect Disabled Persons and their Families," and "New York's Supplemental Needs Trusts: Testamentary Bequests." She has lectured on the topics of estate planning, asset preservation and guardianship matters for the New York State Bar Association.

Outside of work, Anne enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking and traveling.