After practicing law for 17 years, Curtis W. Meadows, Jr., was elected
president and director of the Meadows Foundation. From 1980 to 1996, he devoted
full time efforts to the work of the foundation. The Meadows Foundation is the
largest private foundation in Texas and 43rd largest in the United States. It has received numerous local and national awards for excellence and
innovation in philanthropic grantmaking. In 1996, the National Society of Fundraising Executives honored the Meadows Foundation as the outstanding
foundation in the United States.
Mr. Meadows’s activities include service and leadership positions with the Council on Foundations, the Conference
of the Southwest Foundations, and the Center for Nonprofit Management, plus more than
40 charitable community organizations. Some of these include the Board of
Trustees of the Dallas Bar Foundation and advisory boards of the Dallas Citizens
Council, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Chaplaincy, Habitat for Humanity, the Junior
League of Dallas, the Salvation Army, the Suicide and Crisis Center, the academic affairs committee of Southern Methodist University, the building
committees for the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of African-American Life and
Culture, the Dallas Garden Center, and the Mayor’s Task Force on
Homelessness.
Mr. Meadows received his B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1960
and his J.D. from the University Of Texas School Of Law in 1962. He is an active
leader and elder of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church.