Austin Brockenbrough, III
Rector of the Board of Trustees, University of Richmond, 1994-1998
Austin Brockenbrough III received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Richmond’s School of Business Administration, now the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, in 1962. He has served as a Richmond trustee since 1988 and received the Trustees’ Distinguished Service Award in 1998. Brockenbrough also received the Alumni of the University of Richmond Award for Distinguished Service in 1992.
During Mr. Brockenbrough’s leadership as rector of the Board of Trustees, the Modlin Center for the Arts was opened and dedicated in 1996 and the Jepson Alumni Center was opened and dedicated in 1997.
In 1987, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brockenbrough III and the late Mrs. Elizabeth G. Henry, Mrs. Brockenbrough’s mother, established The Brockenbrough Family Scholarship at the University of Richmond. This merit scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate exceptional academic ability as well as outstanding leadership, character and personal motivation in high school.
Mr. Brockenbrough is a founding partner of Lowe, Brockenbrough & Company, Inc., a private investment-counseling firm. Today he is the firm’s managing director and president. Brockenbrough is a director of the Tredegar Corporation and a trustee of The Williamsburg Investment Trust.
A dedicated community volunteer, Mr. Brockenbrough is a trustee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond, the Medical College of Virginia Foundation and the Virginia Historical Society, Inc. He is also a director of the Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation and the Christian Children’s Fund as well as a member of the boards of governors of the Virginia Home for Boys and St. Christopher’s School.