Executive Management Team
Carolyn Messana-Morrow, Esq.
Chief Legal Counsel
Carolyn Messana-Morrow has served as the in-house legal counsel for the Horizon Corporations since 1992, overseeing the management and oversight of all legal matters of the affiliated companies, with a concentration in corporate and health care matters. Carolyn also manages Horizon’s Human Resources Department.
Before joining Horizon, Carolyn was a partner and managing attorney in the banking and real estate department in a Buffalo law firm. She also served a seven-year term on Horizon’s volunteer board of directors and finance committee.
Carolyn’s areas of expertise include corporate and not-for-profit law; health care law, focusing on mental health, addiction and medical services, as well as Medicare and Medicaid; employment law and human resource matters; contract negotiations, family and criminal court proceedings and workers compensation, liability, malpractice and managed care.
A native Buffalonian, Carolyn received her BA degree in Political Science from SUNY at Buffalo and her Juris Doctorate from SUNY at Buffalo’s School of Law and Jurisprudence. She is a member of the Erie County Bar Association’s Health Law & Real Estate Committees and the Society of Human Resource Managers. Carolyn also served on the Strategic Planning Committee of St. Leo The Great parish in Amherst, NY.