DATE: April 07, 2008

CONTACT: Mike Bonnette, (864) 656-1694
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WRITER: Angela Nixon, (864) 656-0382
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Atlanta businessman receives Clemson Alumni Distinguished Service Award

CLEMSON, S.C. – The Clemson Alumni Association recognized Glenn Hilliard of Atlanta as one of five winners of the 2008 Distinguished Service Award, the university’s highest alumni honor.

Distinguished Service Award honorees demonstrate a dedication to enhancing the value of the university for future generations; service to church, community, profession and public service; and personal accomplishments that serve as a model for present and future Clemson students.

Hilliard graduated from Clemson in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in English. After leaving Clemson, he earned a law degree at George Washington University and worked in Washington, D.C., for the late South Carolina congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn.

Since then, Hilliard has led, as CEO and chairman, Liberty Life Insurance Co., ING Americas; and as chairman, Conseco Inc. He is a respected leader in a dozen arts, environmental and educational organizations throughout the country. Hilliard continues to serve as Conseco chairman; as CEO of Hilliard Group LLC, an investment and advisory firm in Atlanta; and serves as trustee of Columbia Nations Mutual Funds.

He served as member and chairman of the Clemson University Foundation board of directors from 2004 to 2006 and has been credited in part for the foundation’s rise into the top 25 percent of all university endowments in investment performance. He is a major donor to the Clemson Fund and IPTAY and was the inaugural donor to Clemson’s Palmetto Challenge in support of research and education initiatives that advance the economy.

Hilliard and his wife, Heather, have three daughters: Kathryn Stuart, Nancy Joyce and Glenn Shaw.

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