Distinguished
Accredited Estate Planners®
  
Award received November 2008
Fred J. Dopheide
Media, Pennsylvania

Fred J. Dopheide has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the life insurance field and his scholarly commitment to excellence set a high continuing education standard for all insurance and financial services professionals. Mr. Dopheide attended Wright Junior College in Chicago and received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. After practicing law in Chicago, he entered the life insurance business as an agent for the Metropolitan in Chicago, and was later affiliated with Northwestern Mutual and Prudential life insurance companies. He earned his CLU® designation in 1957, attained ChFC® status in 1983, and earned a master's degree in financial services (MSFS) from The American College, Bryn Mawr, in 1988. He was Vice-President of Continuing Education for the American Society of CLU and The American College; editor of the Keeping Current quarterly tape series; and a frequent lecturer appearing before many national professional organizations. He was a prolific writer and his articles have appeared in Estate Planners Quarterly , Trusts and Estates, and the Journal of Taxation, to name a few; and he was a contributing author to the Life and Insurance Handbook. Mr. Dopheide retired in 1989 but he is an Emeritus Member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Miami's Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning and an Editorial Board member of the Estate Planner's Quarterly. He also served as the Vice-Chairman of the Insurance Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law.

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