The Strauss Center is pleased to announce that Jim Langdon, co-creator and founding board member of the Center, has been honored with a 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Texas Exes.
Langdon is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where for many years he worked with Ambassador Robert Strauss, namesake of the Center. Langdon was instrumental in securing the funding and support for what would become the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT Austin, and has remained actively engaged with the Center and its programming in the years since.
Langdon has worked at Akin Gump for over 40 years, where he specializes in oil and gas and energy issues. From 2001-2005 he served as a member of President George W. Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which he chaired in 2005.
The Distinguished Alumni designations are awarded annually by the Texas Exes, the University of Texas at Austin’s alumni organization. Other awardees this year include a cancer researcher, a civic leader, a filmmaker, and an astronaut. More information can be found here.
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