A national business group will present Terrence Murray, retired chairman and CEO of FleetBoston Financial Corp., with a lifetime achievement award next month.

The The National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter (NACDNE) announced the recipients of its 2012 Director of the Year Awards.

In addition to Murray, the association will recognize the board of State Street Corp. as its public company board of the year and the board of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group the private company board of the year.

Also, the association will give a Leadership in Public Corporate Governance Award to Basil Anderson, retired vice chairman of Staples Inc., director of Becton, Dickinson & Co., Hasbro Inc. and Moody’s Corp.

A Leadership in Non-Profit Governance Award will be awarded to Sandra Edgerley, director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, Horizons for Homeless Children, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley and Be The Change. She is also a trustee of the Boston Foundation, the Meadowbrook School of Weston and Noble and Greenough School.

"NACDNE’s Director of the Year Awards honor champions of corporate governance who have shown they are the building blocks upon which the New England region’s success is based," said William A. Earon, president of NACDNE. "In today’s ever-changing and challenging business environment, it is more important than ever to recognize those who provide effective oversight and strive to deliver exemplary board performance."

More than 40 New England directors worked collaboratively to determine the slate of Honorees.

In addition to the board members and boards recognized at the ceremony, NACDNE will honor Myra H. Kraft, philanthropist and wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Myra Kraft passed away in 2011.

NACDNE provides corporate governance information, education and training for directors and CEOs. NACDNE will present the awards to the recipients at a formal recognition ceremony on March 29 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston.