Benjamin Walter Heineman, Jr. (Rhodes 1965)
Attorney. Educator. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Yale University. Phi Beta Kappa. Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He is a recipient of the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member magazine.[3]
He was named one of the top 50 Innovators in Law in the Past 50 Years by American Lawyer, one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers by National Law Journal, one of the 100 most influential individuals on business ethics by Ethisphere magazine, and one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors.[3]
He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Transparency International-USA, and Central European University.[3]
Published, High Peformance with High Integrity (Memo to the CEO), The Inside Counsel Revolution (American Bar Association, forthcoming), as well as books on British race relations and the American presidency. He writes and lectures frequently on business, law, public policy, and international affair.[3]
Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession and Program on Corporate Governance.[3]
Senior Fellow at Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard law School of Government.[3]
Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.[3]
2004 to Retirement 2005 - Senior Vice President for law and public affairs, General Electric Company.[3]
Since 1987 to 2003 - Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut.[2][3]
1982 to 1987 - Partner, Sidley & Austin, Washington.[2]
1979 to 1982 - Partner, Califano, Ross & Heineman, Washington.[2]
1978 to 1979 - Assistant U.S. Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health, Education and Welfare to Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr (CFR. Arnold & Porter) by President Jimmy Carter (Trilateral Commission)[2][3]
1977 to 1978 - Executive Assistant to Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare to Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr (CFR. Arnold & Porter) by President Jimmy Carter (Trilateral Commission)[2][3]
1975 to 1976 - Attorney, Williams Connolly and Califano, Washington.[2]
1973 to 1975 - Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy.[2]
1971 to 1972 - Law Clerk to Justice Potter Stewart (S&B 1937), Supreme Court of the United States Court
Father - 60s - Advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Chairman of the White House Conference on Civil Rights.[6]
1968 - Reporter, Chicago Sun Times.[2]
J.D.,Yale Law School.[3]
From 1965 to 1967 - Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, University of Oxford.[1] (B.Litt Political Sociology)[3]
Harvard College (B.A., History.)[3]
Died 5 Aug 2012, from Stroke. Age 98.
Note: Father, A lawyer and corporate leader who took over railroads, created one of the nation’s first conglomerates and became a close confidant and adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was Johnson’s chief domestic aide, said in an interview Thursday that the president had asked him countless times to call Mr. Heineman for advice. He said the president valued Mr. Heineman’s business acumen, honesty and grasp of the laws and social programs that the Johnson administration hoped to carry out in areas like civil rights, health, education, pollution control and consumer protection. While he worked in law or business, Mr. Heineman often held various government jobs in Illinois, nearly all unpaid, serving Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. Johnson offered him a number of posts — ambassador to the United Nations, or head of the Commerce Department, Office of Management and Budget or the Department of Health, Education and Welfare — all of which he declined. He did, however, serve as chairman of the White House Conference on Civil Rights.[6]
[2] - Prabook.com - Benjamin Walter Heineman, Jr. (Rhodes 1965)
[3] - Benjamin W. Heineman Jr. - CSIS Trustee
[4] - Ben Heineman, Multifaceted Businessman, Dies at 98 By Denise Grady ( Aug. 9, 2012)
[5] - Califano Law Firm Will Be Dissolved By Al Kamen (November 22, 1982)
[6] - NY Times, Aug 10, 2012 - Ben Heineman, Multifaceted Businessman, Dies at 98
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