Northwestern University School of Law has received $3 million from alumnus Harry Seigle to establish the Seigle Family Chair of Law and create an endowed fund to “support faculty excellence,” administrators have announced.

“Harry's generous support will help in our key goal of recruiting and retaining world-class faculty—those teacher-scholars who enrich our academic program and bring luster to our great law school,” dean Daniel Rodriguez said. “I am proud to call Harry my friend, and his friendship to our law school, manifest in this and in other ways, is very meaningful indeed.”

Seigle graduated from the law school in 1971 and practiced at Chapman and Cutler in Chicago for three years before joining his family's business, Elgin Lumber Co. Seigle in 1974 convinced his father not to sell the business, predicting a housing boom in the Chicago suburbs. He was right.