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Peter Lodwick, BBA ’77

Peter Lodwick received a BBA degree magna cum laude in finance from ��Ʒ������ in 1977. He went on to earn his JD degree cum laude from the ��Ʒ������ Dedman School of Law. Talented in academics, Lodwick also excelled as an athlete. He was captain of the Mustang basketball team; a two-time Academic All-American; and a winner of the University’s “M” Award, the highest recognition bestowed upon ��Ʒ������ students, faculty, staff and administrators.

The day before the awards luncheon, Lodwick received yet another honor: ��Ʒ������ was informed that an anonymous donor has established the Peter A. Lodwick Endowed Scholarship at the Cox School of Business because of his service to the community and to ��Ʒ������.

Lodwick was a partner at the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP for 29 years. He later served as vice president and general counsel at The Container Store. In 2016, he became managing director and general counsel for RGT Wealth Advisors. In 2020, he assisted in the sale of RGT to CI Private Wealth (later Corient), a national independent wealth management firm, from which he retired as managing director just last year.

He is an ��Ʒ������ Cox Executive Board member and an alumnus with a strong family connection to ��Ʒ������: His mother earned her master’s degree and taught speech pathology at ��Ʒ������; his sister Sarah and brother Tim earned ��Ʒ������ undergraduate degrees; and one of his three children, Matthew, earned an MS degree in finance from the Cox School.

Connie O’Neill, BBA ’77

Civic and philanthropic leader Connie O’Neill, another member of the ��Ʒ������ Cox Class of 1977, graduated summa cum laude with her BBA, with an emphasis on accounting. Before graduating, she was heavily involved in campus organizations, including Mortar Board (a national honor society) and the ��Ʒ������ Student Foundation. She also served as president of Chi Omega. O’Neill was honored in her senior year as the Cox School’s Outstanding Business Student.

After graduation, O’Neill accepted a position with Ernst & Young, where she was a CPA and became a senior manager of the audit and tax department until 1985. That year, she also became president of the ��Ʒ������ Young Alumni. Her involvement and responsibilities grew, and she eventually became president of the ��Ʒ������ Alumni Association in 2007. She joined the Cox School’s and the Simmons School’s Executive Boards in 2010 and remains active in both.

O’Neill has been or is currently active with several nonprofit organizations, including serving on the Boards of Directors for Children’s Medical Center, Children’s Health Services of Texas, Southwestern Medical Foundation, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, St. Mark’s School of Texas and the Communities Foundation of Texas, where she is presently vice chair.