Distinguished
Accredited Estate Planners®
Award received November 2011
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.

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