Philip ‘Phil’ Lloyd
University of Akron (UA) School of Law alumnus Philip ‘Phil’ Lloyd will be the keynote speaker at the School of Law’s spring 2023 Commencement. The graduation ceremony will be on Sunday, May 7, at 2 p.m. in the James A. Rhodes Arena on the UA campus.
Lloyd received his Juris Doctor from the School of Law in 1972. He has been a member of the UA Foundation board of directors since 1991 and is the current chair. He is a charter member of the Law School Dean’s Club and serves as a member of the Law Advancement Council (past chair). He is past president of the Alumni Association and received an Outstanding Law Alumni Award from the University in 2008. Both he and his wife, Margaret “Peggy” McDowell Lloyd, have been major supporters of the University.
Lloyd serves as chief operating officer of the McDowell Family Company LLC. He is also an officer of the C. Blake McDowell Jr. and Beatrice K. McDowell Foundation. Ohio. In April 2011, he retired from Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease LLP in Akron, where he served the commercial and real estate group. Prior to that, he was a partner with Brouse McDowell LPA, the law firm founded by his wife’s grandfather and for whom the University of Akron Law Center is named. He joined Brouse McDowell in 1972 and became partner in 1977.
Lloyd serves on the Akron Art Museum board of advisors and the board of regents for Mercersburg Academy, an independent co-ed college-preparatory boarding and day school in Pennsylvania, from which he graduated. He has served on the boards of many local organizations, including Cleveland Clinic Akron General Health System (past chair), Akron General Medical Center, First Merit Bank (now Huntington), United Cerebral Palsy and Services for the Handicapped Association (past president), Summit County Board of Mental Retardation, Old Trail School, Bluecoats, Summit County Defenders Association and the Akron City Club. He received a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.