U. of Florida law school to name building for Miami lawyer Stephen Zack after $800,000 gift to promote diversity
The Miami Herald
September 12, 2011
The University of Florida’s law school will name a building after a prominent Miami attorney on Monday, following an $800,000 gift from the lawyer and his firm.
Stephen N. Zack, a UF law school alumnus and immediate past president of the American Bar Association, recently set up an endowment fund titled with his name. Zack, the first Hispanic president of the ABA, established the fund in concert with his firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, to promote diversity and to enhance academic programs at the law school.
With a 70 percent match from Florida’s Major Gifts Trust Fund, the endowment’s principal will come to $1.3 million. In general, universities invest endowments and use the annual income for programs, providing a continuing source of money for the school.
On Monday, Zack will stand next to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and former Florida governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham at the dedication ceremony. The brief ceremony will unveil the inscription with Zack’s name on one of the five buildings at UF’s Levin College of Law.
The event will be at noon, and will follow a lecture on judicial reform featuring distinguished panelists including O’Connor, former ABA president Martha Barnett, Judge Rosemary Barkett of the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Peggy Quince of the Florida Supreme Court.
“I’m very honored,” Zack said.
Zack, who has worked with both Graham and O’Connor in the past, is happy that they will be handling the naming ceremony.
