Barbara Adams

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Biography

Ms. Barbara Adams serves as Board Member at FS KKR Capital. Ms. Barbara Adams served as Director at FS Investment Corporation III. Ms. Adams served as the Executive Vice President - Legal Affairs and General Counsel of the Philadelphia Housing Authority from August 2011 to April 2016, and as a Trustee of each of the Philadelphia Housing Authority Retirement Income Trust and the Philadelphia Housing Authority Defined Contribution Pension Plan from November 2011 to April 2016. She served as the General Counsel of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the "Commonwealth") from 2005 until January 2011. Prior to her appointment as General Counsel to the Commonwealth, Ms. Adams was a Partner at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia, focusing her practice on taxable and tax-exempt public finance, affordable housing development matters, state and local government law, energy law and campaign finance law. Ms. Adams has served on a number of other charitable and public organizations, including a term as Commissioner of the Philadelphia Gas Commission, as an advisory board member on the Homeless Advocacy Project of the Philadelphia Bar Association, as a Commissioner and Secretary of the Independent Charter Commission of the City of Philadelphia and as an advisory board member of The Nuclear World Project. Ms. Adams is a graduate of Temple University School of Law and a graduate of Smith College.