Bridget M. McCormack

Bridget M. McCormack is president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution, a global provider of alternative dispute resolution services. She assumed this role in February 2023, after serving nearly four years as chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. In total, she served on the court for almost a decade, beginning as an associate justice in 2013.

Previously, she was a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she taught criminal law and legal ethics and served as associate dean of clinical affairs. Prior to that, she taught as a fellow at Yale Law School.

McCormack writes and speaks frequently on the future of law, dispute resolution, innovation, artificial intelligence, and access to justice. Her leadership has been widely recognized, including the 2025 Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award, the 2023 Sunshine Award from the Michigan Press Association, the 2023 Rebuilding Justice Award from the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, and honors from Michigan Lawyers Weekly and The Detroit News.

McCormack serves on the Council of the American Law Institute and holds leadership and advisory roles with prominent legal, business, education, and AI organizations and initiatives. She is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a special advisor to the ABA Task Force on AI, and a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. She also recently served as an advisor to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Future of the Profession Initiative.

McCormack earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science from Trinity College-Hartford and a law degree from New York University.