Philanthropist Lyda Hill Receives SMU Maguire Center’s J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award

Visionary philanthropist Lyda Hill received the 2015 J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award from SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility at a luncheon April 2. The annual award honors a community leader who exemplifies ethical, inspiring leadership. Hill, president of the real estate, tourism and venture investment firm LH Holdings, and granddaughter of oilman H. L. Hunt, has spent her life dedicated to what she calls “balancing profit with a purpose.”