The President and CEO of Rochester’s Center for Dispute Settlement is stepping down from the job after nearly 12 years, but says she’ll stay on as a volunteer with the organization.
Sherry Walker-Cowart is credited with putting the non-profit agency on a solid financial footing, which helped the regional center survive when New York’s court system cut funding for dispute settlement agencies.
Walker-Cowart was recruited to the Center for Dispute Settlement in the 1990s by its founder, Andrew Thomas. She went on to other agencies, but came back to the CDR as president when Thomas retired in 2005.