Fund created to honor bar foundation leader
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A memorial fund honoring the first executive director of the Foundation of
the State Bar has been established to accept contributions that will support
one of the foundation’s educational programs. Donations to the Jim Pfeiffer
Legal Heritage Memorial Fund will help underwrite the Legal Heritage Institute,
a program that introduces high school students to the legal profession.
Pfeiffer, who was 60, headed the foundation for 13 years before his 2003 retirement
due to Parkinson’s disease. He died Jan. 14 in a hiking accident in the
Marin headlands.
Pfeiffer spent his career as a fundraiser for nonprofit organizations, including
the YMCA and the Roman Catholic diocese of San Jose. He joined the bar foundation
in 1990, where he worked solo for eight years before hiring an assistant.
Pfeiffer “understood the importance of investing in our youth, as reflected
in the giving programs he effectuated professionally throughout his career
and in his own personal giving and interactions,” said Pauline Gee, a
member of the foundation’s board of directors. The foundation supports
law-related educational projects and offers scholarships to law students who
want to pursue public interest law.
Donations to the new fund are tax-deductible. Checks should be made payable
to the Foundation of the State Bar of California and sent to 180 Howard St.,
San Francisco, CA 94105, with a notation that it is for the Pfeiffer Memorial
Fund.
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