Anne Coventry JD

Anne Coventry is a principal with the law firm of Pasternak & Fidis PC in Bethesda, Maryland, where she is a member of the Estate Planning and Administration Group. Her practice is devoted to estate planning, premarital and domestic partnership agreements, and the administration of estates and trusts. Anne has extensive experience counseling a diverse client base, working with blended and non-traditional families, entrepreneurs with business succession planning needs, senior citizens, young professionals, and families in transition. By implementing thoughtful solutions, Anne aims to secure her clients’ ideal future while minimizing family conflict and tax bills. Anne is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and serves on the Section Council for the Estates and Trust Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association. She is a Co-Chair of the Digital Property Committee of the Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section of the ABA. She is President of the Estate Planning Council of Montgomery County and is admitted to the Bar in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Anne was named one of the area’s top estate attorneys by Washingtonian in 2012-2015 and has bee selected for Super Lawyers. Anne joined Pasternak & Fidis in 2007, after practicing for several years in Washington, D.C., where she began her legal career at Arnold & Porter. Anne grew up outside of Chicago and received a B.A. in English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating cum laude in 1995. (Go, Vikings!) She graduated fourth in her class from the College of William & Mary’s Marshall Wythe School of Law in 1999, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served on the Law Review. Anne’s husband, Dr. Gregory Miller, is a professor of chemistry at The Catholic University of America. She has three children: a teenaged son devoted to video gaming; a fearless (and determined) four-year-old daughter; and a two-year-old son who loves to dance. An avid patron of the visual and performing arts, Anne served from 2004-2012 as a member of the board of directors of Friends of Fillmore Arts Center in the District, which provides skills-based arts education for D.C. public school children. She served on the board of directors of the American Dance Institute in Rockville, Maryland from 2009-2015. In rare “free time,” Anne enjoys playing Mah Jongg.