Ned B. Stiles
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Ned B. Stiles (1932 - 2003), was a managing partner of the international Wall Street law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
While managing partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Mr. Stiles chaired the Diversity Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1997-2000, during which time it adopted significant goals for advancement of women lawyers and lawyers of color and expanded the scope of diversity to include gay and lesbian lawyers. Evan A. Davis, former President of the Association, said: “Ned helped the Association become a much stronger advocate for promoting racial, gender and sexual orientation diversity in the legal profession. He raised the goals, and expanded their scope. He made a difference on one of the critical issues of our time.”
Born on a farm near May’s Lick, Kentucky on August 7, 1932, Mr. Stiles graduated from Miami University and served in the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of Captain, before entering the University of Cincinnati Law School. He worked as a Staff Attorney at the Securities Exchange Commission in Washington, DC after law school, joining the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb in 1961. He served as the firm’s managing partner from 1988 to 2000, during which time the firm greatly expanded its offices in Paris, Brussels, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and opened new offices in Frankfurt, Rome and Moscow.
Mr. Stiles had long been active in efforts to maintain the vitality of downtown Manhattan, serving as a director of The Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association[1], and on the Executive Committee of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Carl Weisbrod, President of the DLMA and of The Downtown Alliance, and former president of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, said of him: “Ned was a key advisor in our effort to assure the economic preservation of Lower Manhattan. Backing his views with actions, he convinced Cleary Gottlieb to remain downtown during the neighborhood’s darkest days in the early 1990’s.”
Until the time of his death Mr. Stiles also served as a director and officer of The Bruce Museum[2], Community Centers, Inc. and the Round Hill Association, all in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was also a member of the Representative Town Meeting of Greenwich.
He was a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and co-author of Silent Partners – Institutional Investors and Corporate Control (Syracuse University Press) (1965) and of several law review articles. He also was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Advisory Board of the World Policy Institute (The New School).
He died Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn having lived in Greenwich and Quogue, N.Y. , survived by his four children, Andrew Stiles, Peter Stiles[3], Michael Stiles, and Jessica Stiles.
