Leadership Gifts

Leadership gifts are gifts of $500,000 and up that are typically designated for a specific purpose. If you are interested in learning about making a gift of any size, please contact Sarah Zimmerman at 312.503.1768 or sarah.zimmerman@law.northwestern.edu.

	$5 Million Gift From Harry J. Seigle Will Bolster Legal Services for Immigrant Communities February, 2023 The gift will endow the Seigle Clinic for Immigrant Youth and Families, providing ongoing support for clinic programming and operations as well as staff recruitment, retention and professional development. More...
	Meadow Family Establishes New Professorship in Honor of Father October, 2022 Linda Friedman Meadow (BS ’89, JD ’92) and Cary Meadow have generously committed to a gift that will be used to establish a new professorship, the Howard Friedman ’64 JD Professor of Law, in honor of Linda’s father. More...
	Faith E. Gay (JD ’86) and Wife Francesca Zambello Commit $3M to New Social Justice Professorship October, 2022 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is delighted to announce that Faith E. Gay (JD ‘86) and Francesca Zambello have generously committed to gift $3 million to establish the Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello Chair in Social Justice. This endowed professorship will make an important difference in our efforts to advance human rights. More...
	Martins Drive Support for Law School Faculty Through Matching Gift Challenge September, 2022 Past chair of Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees J. Landis “Lanny” Martin ’68, ’73 JD, ’22 H and Sharon Martin (’02, ’08 P) have made a $3 million gift to endow faculty positions at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. More...
Northwestern Trustee Chris Combe and Family Make Gift to Northwestern Access to Health Project May, 2022 Northwestern University trustee Chris Combe, his wife, Christina, and their family have generously committed $500,000 to support the Northwestern Access to Health Project at Northwestern Pritzker Law. More...
	Michael and Cari Sacks Gift $2 Million to Law School in Support of Scholarships March, 2021 Michael (JD-MBA ’88) and Cari Sacks have generously committed $2 million to support scholarships for former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students attending Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. More...
	Soshnick Family Invests in Law School Faculty September, 2019 Drew Soshnick (BA '85, MA '85, JD '88) and Brenda Soshnick have generously committed $1 million to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The gift will support Law School faculty in the academic areas of law and economics and provides unrestricted support to the Law School Annual Fund. More...
	Law School Receives Leadership Gift from Terri Mascherin and Thomas Abendroth September, 2019 Terri Mascherin (JD ’84) and Thomas Abendroth (JD ’84), loyal supporters of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law for over 30 years, have made a $1 million commitment to the Motion to Lead Campaign. More...
Northwestern Trustee and Family Make Gift to Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Law August, 2019 Northwestern University trustee Chris Combe, his wife, Christina, and their family have generously committed $500,000 to support the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. This commitment adds to the family’s 2015 gift that established the Michael and Mary Schuette Global Fellowship in Health and Human Rights and the Michael and Mary Schuette Clinical Fellowship in Health and Human Rights, and provided support for the Access to Health Project.  More...
	Hochkammers Generously Support Law School through Several Gifts April, 2019 Bill Hochkammer (JD ’69) and Marcia Hochkammer (BS ’67) have generously supported Northwestern Pritzker School of Law with several major gifts, totaling more than $522,000, throughout the Motion to Lead Campaign. The Hochkammers have been loyal donors to the Law School for over 40 years. More...
$3.25 Million Planned Gift Recorded  March, 2019 An anonymous alumnus has generously recorded a new estate gift raising his total bequest commitment to Northwestern Law to $3.25 million. This extraordinary deferred gift will be used to bolster an existing endowed scholarship and to establish a new endowed discretionary fund to be utilized by a future Dean of the Law School.  More...
Anonymous Gift to Support Law School Operations September, 2018 An anonymous gift of $500,000 to the Law School Fund will provide essential support for the Law School’s annual ongoing operations.  More...
	Carolyn and Alex Paul Donate $1.2 Million to Northwestern Law September, 2018 Carolyn and Alex Paul (JD ’00), together with Judi Paul (’92 P, ’00 P) have made a generous $1.2 million gift which provides unrestricted support to the Law School Annual Fund and also builds upon the Alexander Frederick Paul Law Scholarship which provides need-based support to law students.  More...
	Law School Receives Bequest from Former Professor February, 2018 Northwestern Law has received a bequest of nearly $1 million from the Estate of Jon Waltz and Ross Edman to establish the Waltz-Edman Scholarship, which will provide merit-based awards to law students. More...
	Father and Son, Alvin and Jordon Kruse, Establish Kruse Family Scholarship Fund September, 2017 Alvin (BA ’65, JD ’68) and Jordon (JD ’97) Kruse have pledged $1,000,000 to the Law School to establish the Kruse Family Scholarship Fund. This generous gift further advances the Law School's mission of educating the brightest and most qualified students regardless of ability to pay. More...
	Savners Generously Increase Commitment to Fundraising Campaign August, 2017 David A. Savner (BA '65, JD '68) and his wife, Libby, have made a generous donation to the Law School in the amount of $1.5 million. This follows a $1 million gift in 2014, and, with other support, brings the Savners’ impressive philanthropy in the Motion to Lead Campaign to over $2.6 million. More...
Grosvenor Leadership Donate a Combined $1 Million to the Law School June, 2017 In recognition of this generous support, the Law School will name the new Information Commons, a remarkable student space currently under construction within the Law School Library, after GCM Grosvenor. More...
	Jill and Paul Meister donate $500,000 to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law April, 2016 Part of the gift to the Law School will be used to fund a Jay A. Pritzker Public Interest Fellow, but the majority of it is unrestricted. More...
	Pritzker Family Makes Unprecedented Gift to Northwestern Law October, 2015 Largest law school gift ever will support scholarships, public interest initiatives, entrepreneurship, and multidisciplinary education. More...
	Dawn Clark Netsch Estate Trust Bequests $5 Million for Public Interest Scholarships, Loan Repayment August, 2015 Northwestern University received a $5 million bequest to endow the Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch Scholarship Fund, which will be used to provide financial aid for students who have shown a demonstrated interest in pursuing a career in public interest law. The gift will also support loan repayment assistance for Northwestern Law graduates who choose public interest jobs. More...
	Mark and Kimbra Walter Establish Scholarship Fund at Northwestern Law August, 2015 Mark and Kimbra Walter, through their family foundation, have established the Walter Family Foundation Scholarship Fund at Northwestern University School of Law, which will fully fund an entering student with demonstrated financial need for up to three years.  More...
	Courtney and Chris Combe Give $1 Million to Expand International Public Service Initiatives May, 2015 A gift of $1 million from Courtney and Chris Combe provides programmatic support for the Access to Health Project and establishes two new fellowships, the Michael and Mary Schuette Global Fellowship in Health and Human Rights, and the Michael and Mary Schuette Clinical Fellow in Health and Human Rights. More...
	The Seigle Family Chair of Law May, 2015 $3 million in gifts to Northwestern University from Harry J. Seigle (JD '71) will establish an endowed fund to support faculty excellence and create a new named professorship, the Seigle Family Chair of Law. More...
	The Soshnick Colloquium on Law and Economics April, 2015 Andrew Z. and Brenda K. Soshnick made a gift of $500,000 to Northwestern University School of Law in support of the advanced study of law and economics and the interrelationships between those disciplines. More...
	Kent Lawrence and the M.R. Bauer Foundation Invest in the Center on Negotiation and Mediation March, 2015 A gift of $865,000 from the M.R. Bauer Foundation to the Bluhm Legal Clinic's Center on Negotiation and Mediation will expand teaching and research capacity by establishing the Harris H. Agnew Visiting Professor of Dispute Resolution and the M. R. Bauer Foundation Clinical Fellow in Dispute Resolution, and by providing continuing support for the Mediation Process and Advocacy Workshop. More...
	$4 Million in Gifts Establish the Newton N. Minow Professorship April, 2014 Friends, colleagues, and fellow Northwestern alumni made gifts totaling $4 million to establish an endowment for a new named professorship at Northwestern University School of Law in honor of Newton N. Minow (BS '49, JD '50), Life Trustee and Walter Annenberg Professor Emeritus at the University. More...
Ted Spak ’53, ’56 JD, ’02 GP, ’05 GP Supports Alma Mater Through Bequest April, 2014 Theodore “Ted” Spak’s connection with Northwestern dates back to 1950, when he enrolled in the College of Commerce. The Chicago native earned his undergraduate degree in just over three years before attending Northwestern’s School of Law. More...
	Savners Give to Support Innovative Instructional Technology February, 2014 David A. Savner (JD ’68) and his wife, Libby, have given $1 million to the School of Law to outfit a new state-of-the-art classroom dedicated to technology-based teaching solutions and to create an endowed fund to keep the classroom technologically up-to-date. The classroom will be named the David and Libby Savner Hall. More...
	Neil Bluhm Gives $15 Million December, 2013 "When I was in my early teens, a friend of the family—an African-American man—was wrongfully accused of a crime because of his race," Neil Bluhm said. "He was framed by Chicago Police officers for a robbery they knew he didn’t commit. I went to court with my mother every day of that trial and watched as a lawyer proved that our friend was innocent." More...
	Qualcomm Gives $2 Million for Patent Research August, 2013 Wireless technologies company Qualcomm Incorporated gave the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth $2 million to establish the Project on Innovation Economics, research that will investigate the role of patents in incentivizing technological innovation.  More...
	Lanny and Sharon Martin Give $10 Million Unrestricted Gift July, 2013 A commitment to Northwestern Law's innovative strategies prompted J. Landis "Lanny" Martin (JD '73) and his wife, Sharon, to make a $10 million unrestricted gift to the school. More...
	Howard and Betsy Chapman: Paying It Forward April, 2013 For Howard Chapman (JD '58), giving back is as much a privilege and an honor as it is an obligation. Chapman, who attended Northwestern on an academic scholarship, will always be grateful for the opportunity to study law without worrying about finances. More...
	Kirkland's Alumni Partners Pledge $5 Million October, 2012 Kirkland & Ellis partners Jeffrey Hammes (JD '85), Vicki Hood (JD-MBA '77), and Robert Hayward (JD '97) demonstrated their commitment to Northwestern Law and to legal education by spearheading a pledge from Kirkland's senior alumni partners of million, one of the largest single gifts in the school's history. More...