Catherine Petersen Kligerman - In Memoriam

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Catherine Petersen Kligerman

Posted on: Dec 31, 2010

Catherine Petersen Kligerman was born in 1942 in Bristol, Connecticut. She died Saturday, December 11, 2010. She was a 1968 graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law. Catherine was a member of the Connecticut and Tennessee Bars, past president and first woman president of the Hartford County Bar Association, Hartford, CT, Special Master for Family Court, Hartford, CT, Listed Mediator Civil & Family Law, Knoxville, TN. She moved to the Knoxville area with her husband in 1999 when his work relocated the family. Most of her legal practice focused on family law and debtor/creditor relations. She was a practicing attorney in Knoxville until the health of her husband would not allow her to work in the structure of a normal work day and care for him. She then worked as a Real Estate Agent for Southland GMAC Real Estate. Catherine is survived by her husband, Dr. Sidney Kligerman; sisters, Mary Ellen Weiner, Sandy Hook, CT and Grace Petersen, Newington, CT.