Gayle Brian Wilhelm was educated at Harvard College, graduating, magna cum laude, in 1957. From 1957 to 1961, he served in the Far East as an Air Force tactical intelligence officer. Thereafter, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating, with honors, in 1964 and joining Cummings & Lockwood in that year. Gayle is a principal of the firm's Private Clients Group and the lead author of Connecticut's primary legal reference source for probate lawyers and judges, a seven-volume series of treatises on wills, trusts, death taxes, settlement of estates and probate litigation. He is a founder of the Lower Fairfield County Estate Planning Council and a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He has served in many community organizations, including special assignments as legal counsel to the Greenwich Association for the Public Schools and the Connecticut Probate Assembly. |