Chattanooga attorney Anna Protano-Biggs has joined the AIM Center as the organization’s new president and CEO. Originally from England with an Italian background, Protano-Biggs is a barrister-at-law and attorney-at-law.
Protano-Biggs is the founder of the Hamilton County Mental Health Court and served as its inaugural director. She also worked for nine years as a public defender in Chattanooga, where she was the lead attorney working with mental health consumers and clients with traumatic brain injury and developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Before coming to Chattanooga, Protano-Biggs served as a senior research officer to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, served the 56th United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland as an NGO representative and speaker and worked with an independent health research project in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
She has a law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master of Law from the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex.
Undergraduate studies were from The Imperial College London, where Protano-Biggs obtained her Bachelor of Science.
Source: AIM Center