© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.
By Brooks Igo
(March 3) – South Texas College of Law announced this week that Richard Anderson, who will retire as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines in May, has gifted the law school more than $1.3 million.
Anderson’s donation is the second-largest gift by a living donor in South Texas’ 93-year history.
The law school said in a press release that it will use Anderson’s investment to provide “meaningful scholarship support to the most promising second-year students to reward their first-year achievements and to help relieve their debt burden.”
The donation is a huge boost for the law school, which, according to the university’s announcement, has the fourth-lowest tuition of all 118 private law schools in the nation.
“Scholarship support for students remains our No. 1 fundraising goal at South Texas College of Law/Houston,” Donald Guter, president and dean of South Texas College of Law, said in a statement.
“The Andersons’ remarkably selfless gift catapults our efforts in this arena, greatly helping us to fulfill our mission to provide a diverse body of students with an exceptional legal education, and to prepare graduates to serve their community and the profession with distinction.”
Anderson joined the board of his alma mater last fall. At his request, South Texas will create an endowed scholarship fund named in memory of his friend and fellow alumnus, James Michael Anderson, former Harris County district attorney and state district judge of the 262nd District Court.
Additionally, the law school plans to allocate a portion of the gift to facilitate a campus renovation project.
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