Meadows Receives Texas Exes Distinguished Alumnus Award
The University of Texas at Austin's alumni association, the Texas Exes, announced that LBJ School faculty member Curtis Meadows has been selected as one of six recipients of the association's highest honor, the Distinguished Alumnus Award. The Texas Exes inaugurated the annual award in 1958 to recognize alumni whose achievements in their careers or life work, community and service to the University have been remarkable.
Meadows, who received his bachelor of business administration degree in 1960, began an 18-year career as an attorney after he earned his law degree in 1962. Focusing on tax law and estate planning for the Dallas law firm of Ray, Anderson, Shields, Trotti & Hemphill, he worked there as managing partner for 10 years. In 1978, he was elected president, chief executive officer and director of the Meadows Foundation. He retired from his work as a lawyer two years later.
In the years Meadows presided over the foundation, its endowment increased from $60 million to about $735 million while dispensing more than $270 million in gifts and grants to organizations statewide. Meadows resigned as director emeritus in 1996. He has taught nonprofit management courses as an adjunct faculty lecturer at the LBJ School since 1995. In 2000, he became founding head of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Other alumni honored this year include Laredo physician Joaquin Cigarroa, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, geologist and philanthropist John Jackson, West Texas author Elmer Kelton, and Houston businessman Corbin Robertson. Recipients will be honored September 20 in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at The University of Texas at Austin.
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