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| UI law alumni look to the future
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June 18, 2001 Charlotte B. Hubbell and Frederick S. Hubbell, currently residing in the Netherlands, have given a $500,000 leadership gift to the Iowa Law School Endowment Campaign for the 21st Century through the UI Foundation. The Hubbells' gift will support an outstanding teacher/scholar on Iowa's faculty by establishing the Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professorship in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. In weighing when to make a gift of this size and purpose, the Hubbells decided they wanted to have an impact during their lifetimes. "It's our belief that issues such as land use and water quality are too important to put on 'hold,'" they explained. "We hope this professorship stimulates discussion on and attention to these issues." "Fred and Charlotte Hubbell have made an important and lasting investment in the breadth and quality of an Iowa legal education through their generous gift," said Dean N. William Hines. "Old-timers may recall that, earlier in my career, I was something of a pioneer in the environmental law field. It therefore gives me great personal satisfaction to know that henceforth the Iowa faculty will always include a distinguished scholar devoted to environmental law and natural resources management." Frederick S. Hubbell is a member of the Executive Committee of ING Group in Amsterdam. The Des Moines native was previously chair, president, and chief executive officer of Equitable of Iowa Companies, an insurance, annuities, and investment company founded by his great-great-grandfather. While living in Des Moines, Hubbell was involved in Planned Parenthood of Mid-Iowa Foundation and was chair of the Iowa fund-raising campaign of the United Negro College Fund and the Greater Des Moines campaign of the United Way of Central Iowa. He also served on the advisory board of Iowa's Henry B. Tippie College of Business. Charlotte Beyer Hubbell, a native of New Orleans, practiced law for Willkie, Farr & Gallagher and was chief counsel for operations at Home Box Office, both in New York City. While living in Des Moines, she was a director of many civic organizations and served as president of the Iowa Environmental Council. The Hubbells are longtime supporters of the college; they are members of the College of Law Dean's Club, and Charlotte Hubbell served on the Iowa Law School Foundation board of directors before the couple and their three children moved to the Netherlands in 1999. |