CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Cammie R. Hauptfuhrer, a lawyer and longtime civic leader in Charlotte, has been elected a Trustee of The Duke Endowment.
“We are thrilled that Cammie is joining our board,” said Charles C. Lucas III, chair of the Endowment’s Board of Trustees. “She is an insightful community leader with significant experience in some of the Endowment’s areas of focus, including children and family well-being. She also is strongly connected to her alma mater, Duke University, and that relationship will help us in our ongoing work with Duke.”
Hauptfuhrer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in History. She is a 1982 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, where she was executive editor of the Law Review. After finishing school, she clerked for the late Collins J. Seitz, chief judge of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, from 1982 – 83. She then clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. from 1983 – 84; at the time, only six of the 32 Supreme Court clerks were women.
She then joined the firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, N.Y., and later worked in the criminal appeals division of the Legal Aid Society of New York. Returning to her hometown of Charlotte, she began working in 1987 for the firm of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, founded by her father, Russell M. Robinson II, a former board chair of the Endowment.
Hauptfuhrer retired from practicing law in 1995 to pursue her passion for civic involvement. She is a noted civic and community leader, having served as board chair for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation, the Levine Museum of the New South, Discovery Place Science Museum and MDC Inc., a Durham, N.C., based think-tank devoted to promoting equitable change in the South.
Other civic involvement included service with boards for the Foundation for the Carolinas, North Carolina Humanities Council, Duke Divinity School, Charlotte Country Day School, Presbyterian Hospital, United Way of Central Carolinas and the Renaissance West Community Initiative, a nonprofit organization working to improve housing, education, health, wellness and opportunity in an economically challenged section of west Charlotte.
She and her spouse, W. Barnes Hauptfuhrer, have two children: F. Barnes Hauptfuhrer and Dillon R. Hauptfuhrer.
On the Endowment’s Board, Hauptfuhrer replaces Kenneth D. Weeks, who retired earlier this year after serving since 2007.