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Award
received November 2011 |
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Curtis B. Ford
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Curtis B. Ford received his undergraduate degrees in both
business and journalism from Syracuse University and his JD
from the University of Chicago School of Law. He is a former
newspaper reporter and lawyer having been a member of both the
Massachusetts and Florida State Bar Associations. After
joining Northwestern Mutual as an agent in Tampa, Florida, in
1965, Mr. Ford served as Agency Supervisor and Home Office
Officer. In 1970, he was named General Agent in San Francisco
specializing in insurance tax planning for family businesses.
Over the next ten years, agency volume and premium increased
over 500%. He also was awarded the CLU® and ChFC® designations
awarded and administered by The American College. After a
career with Northwestern which spanned over forty years, Mr.
Ford retired as General Agent in 1980 to return to personal
production, specializing in Family Business Estate Planning.
A well-known speaker on insurance tax planning, Mr. Ford
has been a frequent speaker at Million Dollar Round Table
(MDRT) programs, the Society of Financial Service
Professionals programs and teleconferences, Estate Planning
Institutes, and CEB Programs. He is the author of How to
Establish an Estate Analysis Practice published in 1978 by
National Underwriter and has written numerous articles for the
CLU Journal, Estate Planners Quarterly, Trust and Estates,
and Probate and Property. He was also a
contributing editor for the ASCLU and ChFC "Keeping Current"
series.
Mr. Ford is past president of the San Francisco Chapter of
the Society of Financial Service Professionals and the San
Francisco Estate Planning Council, an affiliate of the NAEPC.
He has held all the offices of the national Society of
Financial Service Professionals including national president
in 1995-96. |