Honoree-
Steven Kumble

Steven J. Kumble, an accomplished attorney and investment banker was educated at Yale University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1954. He went on to earn his doctor of jurisprudence degree at Harvard University Law School in 1959 and was admitted to the New York State Bar the following year. In 1968, he became a founding partner of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley & Casey, where for nearly two decades he specialized in corporate law. During the early ’80s, Mr. Kumble formed Lincolnshire Management, Inc., a private investment firm. He currently serves as the firm’s chairman.

His association with the University began in 1983, when he joined the board of trustees. Chairing the first and third phases of the University’s 10-year fund raising campaign, “A Decade to Build,” he played an integral role in exceeding the campaign’s initial goal by more than $10 million.

Mr. Kumble is currently secretary of the board, has co-chaired the Development committee and has served as a member of the Executive, Compensation, Conflict of Interest, Honorary Degree and Nominating committees. He received an honorary doctorate from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in 1990. In 1993, the student services building at Post was named Kumble Hall in recognition of his generosity and leadership. He recently pledged $1 million to name the Steven and Peggy Kumble Theater on the Brooklyn Campus.

Mr. Kumble serves as chairman emeritus of the Governor’s Committee on Scholastic Achievement and as a member of the advisory board of the Rand Institute for Civil Justice. His professional achievements have earned him mention in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the East. He and his wife, Peggy, have two sons, Todd and Roger, as well as two granddaughters, Jacqueline and Lindsay.

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