Green Bay, Wis. ─ Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is proud to announce that attorney shareholder Timothy F. Nixon received the 2013 Daniel Whitney Award for Outstanding Volunteer of the Year.
This award is presented to the Chamber’s outstanding volunteer of the year, as chosen by vote of the Chamber of Commerce staff. The award is named for Daniel Whitney, one of the first easterners to call Green Bay home. Only 24 when he arrived here from New Hampshire in 1819, he opened a general merchandise store and supplied beef and grain to Fort Howard from a wharf and warehouse at the junction of the Fox and East Rivers. Ten years later Whitney platted the town of Navarino in what is now Green Bay’s downtown. In short order, he built housing for his employees, the settlement’s first hotel, and Christ Church. Sometimes called the “Father of Green Bay,” Whitney went on to found settlements throughout the state and was one of the state’s founding fathers as well.
Nixon has a long and involved history with the Chamber, serving on its board of directors 2004 to 2012, including as chair elect 2007 to 2008 and the chairman 2008 to 2009. He served as the chair of the Chamber’s strategic planning committee 2007 to 2008, as a finance committee member 2004 to 2007, on the executive committee from 2007 to 2012 and on the CEO search committee in 2011. He was also instrumental in the creation and development of the Chamber’s diversity efforts, and served as the chair of the business cultural diversity committee from 2005 to 2008.
Nixon will be honored at the Chamber’s annual dinner on Monday, Oct. 7, at the KI Convention Center in downtown Green Bay.
Nixon is a shareholder and chair of Godfrey & Kahn’s Business Finance & Restructuring Practice Group and member of the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Practice Groups.
With more than 180 lawyers, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is one of Wisconsin’s leading business law firms. Founded in 1957, Godfrey & Kahn maintains offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay and Waukesha, Wis.; and Washington, DC. For more information, please visit the firm’s website at http://www.gklaw.com.
