Marcia P. Dewitt
President & Chief Executive Officer

In 1990, Ms. DeWitt founded GuilfordPare, a workers’ compensation and disability management firm serving national and international clients. She is the developer of Guilford’s Workers’ Compensation/Disability Management System, an integrated business approach to helping employers control workers’ compensation costs.

For over ten years, Ms. DeWitt has helped drive Guilford to a highly successful and sought after business resource for helping businesses save millions of dollars in workers’ compensation/disability costs. Under her design, Guilford now manages and trains large national companies in her innovative and holistic workers’ compensation system. In more recent years the innovative non-traditional approach has been utilized by insurance companies and reinsurers.

Prior to founding GuilfordPare, Ms. DeWitt was the Executive Director of Harbor Holdings, Ltd. where she was in charge of the profitability and strategic direction of Harbor Health Systems of Baltimore. It was here that she identified workers’ compensation was an area virtually creating costs and poor outcomes for businesses, insurers, medical and legal communities.

Ms. DeWitt’s extensive background includes such respected positions as executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Kennedy Krieger Institute of The Johns Hopkins University; a member of the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals and the HEW/HHS task force for workers’ compensation and disability; member of U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology; legal counsel for the Nation Center for Law and the Handicapped (presenting several cases to Federal Appeals Courts and U. S. Supreme Court); director of the Developmental Disabilities Law Project at the University of Maryland Law School; and the president of the Disabilities Law Center. She has served on over 20 boards of community groups, universities, cultural and religious organizations.

She holds a B.A. from Manhattanville College and a J.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame. She is admitted to the Bar in Indiana and Maryland. She also received a certificate in American and British Laws at University College, University of London, and attended the London School of Economics.