Murray Kushner C'73, L'76 Appointed to Board of Overseers
Board of Overseers Pays Tribute to Departing Members
At
the Spring meeting of the Law School’s Board of Overseers in New
York, Dean Michael A. Fitts and the Board paid tribute to members departing
the Board at the expiration of their terms. Overseers who stepped down
were Jeanne Olivier L’79, Partner at Shearman & Sterling
in New York, and Melvin Cantor L’67, a retired partner of
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York. They were lauded for their
contributions to the advisory board and for their counsel over the years
to Dean Fitts, former Dean Colin S. Diver, and Interim Dean Charles W.
Mooney, Jr. |
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Murray
Kushner C'73, L'76, President of Schenkman & Kushner, a prominent
real estate development firm in Northern New Jersey, has been appointed
to the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Board of Overseers.
Kushner graduated summa cum laude with distinction in Economics from the
University of Pennsylvania and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He and his
wife Lee have four children: Aryeh ENG ‘98/W’98, Jonathan, a
1999 graduate from NYU, Marc C’99, and Melissa C’02. The Kushners
have long supported philanthropy at the Law School and the University.
Their generosity has also benefited the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey (UMDNJ), the Rabbinical College of America, the U.S. Holocaust
Museum in Washington, DC, the Jewish Educational Center, MetroWest Federation/United
Jewish Appeal, and the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, founded by his late
father. 
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