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Honorary Degree Recipients 1996–2019

2018 Honorary Degree Recipients

Ms. Erica L. Webber, ADPA^®
Senior Vice President and Senior Trust Officer
U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management

Ms. Erica L. Webber, ADPA^®

Ms. Erica L. Webber, ADPA^® is a senior vice president and senior trust officer at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management in the Washington, D.C. area, where she works with high-net-worth individuals and their families on the fiduciary aspects of private wealth management.

Ms. Webber advises clients on estate and gift planning, wealth transfer techniques, asset titling, trust administration, and eldercare needs. In her role, she often acts as a liaison between clients and their CPAs, attorneys, and other advisors. She has worked in the legal and financial services field for more than 20 years. She holds the Accredited Domestic Partnership Advisor^SM (ADPA^®) designation.

Ms. Webber is a longtime member of the Montgomery College Foundation Board of Directors. Through the Webber Family Foundation, she has directed significant major gifts totaling more than $900,000 to support the Global Humanities Institute, the Innovation Fund, Webber Family scholarships, and more. More than 180 Montgomery College students have benefitted from the Webber Family scholarships since its inception. The Montgomery College Foundation established the Adrian Webber Memorial Lecture at the College.

Founded in 1999, the Webber Family Foundation has distributed approximately $14 million in grants to support a variety of education programs throughout the United States. The emphasis of the foundation is closing the achievement gap in academics and the arts. The foundation offers grants to organizations aligned with its mission of focusing on the gap between proficiency and potential for lower income youth, with an emphasis on school readiness/early literacy, out of school time enrichment, and high performing charter schools.

Ms. Webber’s parents, Adrian and Arthur Webber, were lifelong learners at Montgomery College. They took dozens of art, humanities, and science classes over a 20-year period. Mrs. Adrian Webber was an elementary school teacher, and later, worked at the National Institutes of Health as an administrator. Mr. Arthur Webber enjoyed a long career working with the government and private industry in the intelligence and aerospace sectors.

She has an undergraduate degree from Tulane University and a law degree from the Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. She is married to David Deep and lives in Montgomery County.