The road to success and the meaning of giving back: Donald Sturm LLM ’60
A Q&A with alumnus Donald Sturm LLM ’60 in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Graduate Tax Program.
Native New Yorker Donald Sturm LLM ’60, the son of a waiter who lost his management job during the Great Depression, earned an LLM from NYU Law’s Graduate Tax Program six decades ago and went on to build a highly successful career, residing mainly in Omaha and Denver, in the construction, energy, banking, and real estate sectors. After completing his NYU LLM in Taxation, he began working for the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service as a trial attorney in what was then the Omaha Region, then took a position with a major national contractor. He eventually became the second largest shareholder in a global corporation and acquired or developed a number of banks as a private investor. At age 89, Sturm is now an active business owner and philanthropist, with the law school at the