Board Members
Mr. Philip M. Hawley
Elected 1975
Phil Hawley is the former chair and chief executive officer of Carter Hawley Hale Stores, which at the time of his retirement was the largest department store chain in the western United States. Chair and CEO from 1977 to 1993, Hawley began his career as a buyer at The Broadway in 1958.
Named California Industrialist of the Year by the California Museum of Science and Industry in 1975, he received the Harvard Business School Statesman of the Year award in 1989. He has served on the boards of directors of AT&T, Atlantic Richfield Company, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, Walt Disney Company, Weyerhaeuser Company, and the Economist Group (The Economist magazine, U.K.).
An active member of the Business Roundtable and Business Council, he also serves as a trustee of the Haynes Foundation and is a life trustee of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and the University of Notre Dame. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Previous Committees: Business and Finance; Institute and Alumni Relations; Investment; Nominating