Spotlight: For First Time, Woman Heads L.A. Area Chamber

Alison A. Winter, president and chief executive of Northern Trust Bank of California, has been installed as chairwoman of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce for 1998. She is the first woman to hold the post in the chamber’s 100-year history. Winter had served as the first vice chair of the 1,500-member organization. Northern Trust, a unit of Chicago-based Northern Trust Corp., on Monday began trading as part of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.