Kia F. Murrell is associate counsel for the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA), the state’s largest business organization with over 10,000 members. CBIA works to promote a healthy business climate, which encourages economic growth and job creation in the state.
Murrell engages public officials on matters of unemployment compensation insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, tort reform, premises liability, products liability, legal and professional trade practices and affordable housing issues.
Murrell was appointed to the Connecticut Department of Labor’s Employment Security Advisory Board and the Second Injury Fund Advisory Board administered by the Office of the State Treasurer. She is a member of the Governor’s Task Force on Diversity and Affirmative Action in State Agencies, the workers’ compensation and labor and employment law sections of the Connecticut Bar Association, and she serves on the boards of several community and non-profit organizations.
Prior to joining CBIA in 2006, Murrell was the deputy secretary of external affairs for the former Mayor of Philadelphia. Before becoming a member of the Mayor’s executive staff, she spent five years practicing law first in the area of human services litigation and then later in tax litigation for the City of Philadelphia Law Department.
She received her J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law in Villanova, Penn., and has a B.A. degree in government from the University of Virginia.
Murrell is a member of the American Bar Association, the Connecticut and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, and is a certified arbitrator in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas.
She lives in Cheshire.
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