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Adrienne Arsht

American lawyer

Adrienne Arsht (born February 4, 1942) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.

Personal life

Arsht was born to a Jewish family[1][2] in Wilmington, Delaware, to Samuel Arsht, a Wilmington attorney, and Roxana Cannon Arsht, the first female judge in the State of Delaware.[3] Arsht skipped her senior year at Tower Hill School and went directly to Mount Holyoke College, where she received her bachelor's degree. She then attended the Villanova University School of Law for her Juris Doctor J.D.[4] Upon graduation, Arsht became the eleventh woman admitted to the Delaware bar. Her mother was the fifth.[5]

Arsht was married to the late Myer Feldman (1914–2007), a former counsel to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.[6]

Career

Arsht began her Delaware law career in 1966 with the firm Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell. In 1969, she moved to New York City and joined the legal department of Trans World Airlines where she was the first woman to work i

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Adrienne Arsht is a business leader and impact philanthropist. She has taken a leading role promoting artistic, business, and civic growth. Her thirty-million-dollar contribution to Miami’s Performing Arts Center in 2008 secured its financial footing. In her honor, the center was renamed the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. In 2012, her contribution of ten million dollars to the Lincoln Center was recognized with the dedication of the Adrienne Arsht Stage in Alice Tully Hall.

Arsht also donated five million dollars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to fund the museum’s first ever paid internship program and ten million dollars to fund METLIVE Arts programming. With her gift, the Met is the single largest art museum in the country to offer 100 percent paid internships.

In Washington in 2016, Arsht spearheaded the creation of the Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience at the Atlantic Council, which was renamed in 2019 the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, with the thirty-million-dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift that she mat

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As a business leader and impact philanthropist, Adrienne Arsht has taken a leading role promoting artistic, business, and civic growth in Washington, D.C., Miami, and New York. Her $30 million contribution to Miami’s Performing Arts Center in 2008 secured its financial footing. In her honor, the center was renamed the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Recently, Ms. Arsht donated $5 million to the Metropolitan Museum in New York City to fund the Museum’s first ever-paid internship program, which now will be named the Adrienne Arsht Interns. With Ms. Arsht’s gift, The Met, is now the single largest art museum in the country to offer 100 percent paid internships.

In 2012, her contribution of $10 million to Lincoln Center was recognized with the dedication of the Adrienne Arsht Stage in Alice Tully Hall. In Washington in 2016, Ms. Arsht spearheaded the creation of the Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience at The Atlantic Council, which was renamed in 2019 the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center

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