Martins push aid for Law University college by means of matching present challenge

Previous chair of Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees J. Landis “Lanny” Martin ’68, ’73 JD, ’22 H and Sharon Martin (’02, ’08 P) have produced a $3 million present to endow faculty positions at Northwestern College Pritzker College of Regulation.

The reward establishes the Legislation Neighborhood Professorship Fund alongside with a matching gift challenge, by means of which the Martins will match items to the fund dollar-for-greenback up to $3 million. By instituting this challenge, the Martins goal to extend the fund’s impression and endow numerous total professorships at the university.

“Through their philanthropy and management, Lanny and Sharon Martin have assisted travel the progress and excellence of the Regulation College and Northwestern,” stated University President Michael H. Schill, who retains an appointment as a professor at Northwestern Pritzker Law. “I am so grateful for their amazing generosity and enduring motivation to the College.”

An endowed professorship is a single of the highest honors bestowed on a school member, and the Martins’ matching present challenge will bolster the school’s attempts to recruit leading school.

“We are incredibly grateful for Lanny and Sharon Martin’s impactful reward that will allow us to set up new endowed professorships,” claimed Hari M. Osofsky, Northwestern Pritzker Law dean. “These professorships will participate in a important purpose in our Legislation School’s skill to recruit and keep the most excellent faculty, which advancements assorted excellence, supplies our students with crucial discovering activities and supports revolutionary investigation that addresses main societal worries.”

Northwestern is inviting benefactors in the Law Faculty neighborhood to take part in the matching gift obstacle.

“Sharon and I are honored to guidance one of Dean Osofsky’s leading strategic priorities: expanding the quantity of endowed professorships at the Law University,” Lanny Martin stated. “We hope other folks will be a part of us in aiding her essential attempts to reinforce and diversify Northwestern Pritzker Law’s faculty.”

The Martins’ latest reward delivers their overall supplying to Northwestern to far more than $45 million. Their longtime philanthropic help has benefited regions throughout the College, together with Northwestern Pritzker Regulation, Northwestern Athletics and Recreation and the Bienen College of Tunes. More than the years, the pair designed the J. Landis Martin Professorship of Regulation and Business created a $10 million unrestricted present supplying funding for the Regulation College, permitting the implementation of ground breaking strategies to boost lawful instruction and improve the student knowledge aided create Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium, the University’s soccer and lacrosse discipline, by means of a $15 million gift to Northwestern Athletics and Recreation and designed several generous items to the Regulation College Fund and Bienen School of Music Fund.

After signing up for the Northwestern College Board of Trustees in 1999, Lanny Martin served as the Board’s chair from September 2017 as a result of August 2022. He also is a lifetime member of the Northwestern Legislation Board. All through We Will. The Marketing campaign for Northwestern, Lanny and Sharon Martin served in several volunteer leadership roles: as co-chairs of the University’s “We Will” Marketing campaign and Northwestern Pritzker Law’s “Motion to Lead” Marketing campaign and customers of the Athletics and Recreation Campaign Committee and Colorado Regional Campaign Committee.

Lanny Martin obtained his bachelor’s in business enterprise from Northwestern in 1968 and his J.D. from the Regulation Faculty in 1973, in which he served as an editor of Northwestern College Law Overview. In 2022, he was awarded an honorary Health practitioner of Humane Letters from the College, and in 1996, he was the recipient of a Northwestern Alumni Association Alumni Merit Award.

After a productive tenure as a legislation company affiliate and then lover and member of the govt and organization committees at Kirkland & Ellis, he has led various providers that span many industries. He is the founder and controlling director of Platte River Fairness, a personal equity financial investment business in Denver concentrated on modest- and center-sector running companies, and the founding director and board chairman of Houston-primarily based Crown Castle Intercontinental Corporation. He retired in 2005 as chairman and CEO of Denver-based Titanium Metals Corporation and was inducted into the Colorado Business enterprise Hall of Fame in 2012. 

Sharon Martin is a member of the Northwestern University Women’s Board. She acquired her bachelor’s from Denison College, where she is a everyday living trustee. She has been a leader in the Denver arts neighborhood for decades. She and Lanny have three kids (Mary Lester Sarah Stettner, who obtained an undergraduate degree from Northwestern in 2002 and a J.D. from the Regulation College in 2007 and Emily Jones, who gained degrees from Feinberg College of Medicine in 2008 and 2011) and nine grandchildren.