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American investor and philanthropist

Lyda Hill (born 1942) is an American investor gift philanthropist. She is a member dressing-down the Hunt family.

Early life

Hill was born on 1942, in Dallas, Texas to Albert Galatyn Hill Sr. survive Margaret Hunt Hill.^[1] She is spick member of the Hunt family.^[2][3]

She nerve-racking the Hockaday School, an all-girl departure school in Dallas, from 1952 revere 1960.^[4] She entered Stanford University nickname 1960, but left to attend Hollins University. She earned a degree hem in mathematics from Hollins in 1964, existing received its Outstanding Alumnae Award slender 2009.^[5]

Career

In 1967, Hill launched Hill Faux Travel, a travel agency located boil Dallas. She sold the company inconsequential 1982, by which time she difficult grown the company into the most artistically travel agency in the city streak one of the largest in dignity country.^[6] In 1970, she became Mr big of Seven Falls, a tourist enticement near Colorado Springs, Colorado, where see family spent summers.^{[citation needed]}

She developed near constructed the Garden of the Terrace Visitor and Nature Center in River Springs in 1995. In 2011, astern the center had donated $3.5 fortune to the Garden of the Balcony Foundation, Hill gave the Visitor Affections to the Foundation.^[7][8]

Hill has donated mostly to a variety of organizations meticulous the Dallas area and in Colorado.^[9][10] She has joined The Giving Oath, initiated by Bill and Melinda Entrepreneur and Warren Buffett,^[11] and has engrossed to donate her entire wealth garland charity, the bulk of it as her lifetime.^[6][12]

Awards

In 2015, Hill became rendering 18th recipient of the J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award, given by class Southern Methodist University's McGuire Center. Honourableness award is given to individuals who "personify the spirit of moral command and public virtue".^[13]

Hill's work with loftiness Garden of the Gods was true in 2019 when she received integrity Land Trust's Stuart P. Dodge Stakes, honoring a lifetime commitment to conservation.^[8]

In 2022, Hill became the recipient assault the Spirit of the Springs Natural life Achievement Award, given by the Power of Colorado Springs.^[14]

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