Trienens, Howard J.

Howard J. Trienens completed both his undergraduate and graduate education at Northwestern University, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1945 and his J.D. in 1949. He served with the U.S. Air Force from 1943 to 1946. In 1949, he was admitted to the Illinois Bar and joined the law firm of Sidley, Austin, Burgess and Harper (Chicago). Trienens, an expert in public utility and railroad law, became a partner of Sidley & Austin in 1956. Trienens also served as U.S. General Counsel of AT&T (1980-86) and as director of the G. D. Searle Company and the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company.

Trienens married Paula Miller, a 1947 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, in 1946. Paula and Howard Trienens continued to be involved in Northwestern; she served as the president of the Alumnae of Northwestern, and he was elected vice president of the Northwestern Alumni Association in 1966 and has served as a Trustee of the University since his election to the Board of Trustees in 1967 (Chairman of the Board, 1986-1996).

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