Jean Edelman Named a Trustee of Rowan University
For Immediate Release
February 13, 2008
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GLASSBORO, N.J. — Jean McMenamin Edelman has strong — and long — ties to Rowan University. On Wednesday, Feb. 13, they got even stronger when Edelman was sworn in as a member of Rowan’s Board of Trustees, a position to which she was named by New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
A 1981 graduate, Edelman was a leader at then-Glassboro State College, where she served as the first female Student Government Association president and graduated as the “distinguished senior” — the college’s highest honor, awarded to only one graduate each year.
She and husband Ric, a 1980 graduate of the school, founded Edelman Financial Services (EFS) in 1987. Now one of the largest and most prestigious investment management and financial planning organizations in the nation, the firm has won more than 65 professional, business and community service awards, and currently manages $4 billion for thousands of individuals and families nationwide. The firm employs 150 people in the Washington, D.C., area.
Edelman has served in virtually every position at the firm and trained most of its staff. She also was instrumental in the launch of EFS’s patented retirement planning tool for children, the Retirement InCome for Everyone Trust® (the RIC-E Trust).
Edelman, who was named Alumnus of the Year by Rowan in 1994, is one of the most successful women in the Washington, D.C., business community. She frequently speaks on entrepreneurship and leadership and writes a column on balancing work and life.
The Edelmans, New Jersey natives who now live in Virginia, are very active in a wide variety of charitable activities, including the Edelman Nursing Career Development Center at Inova Health System, HEROES Inc., the Make-a-Wish Foundation and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In 2002, the couple donated $1 million to the Rowan University Foundation for the enhancement of the University’s planetarium, the largest gift made by any undergraduate alumni in Rowan’s history. Last year they donated an additional $54,000 to cover admission for elementary school children to the planetarium, named in their honor.
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