The 2022-2025 Tocqueville Chairs
What happens when two highly confident, passionate, and successful trial attorneys combine forces for good? Fortunately for United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, it means the organization’s bold vision for the future of North Texas will be heralded far and wide in pursuit of making Dallas the largest Tocqueville Society population in the country by 2025.
Former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Erin Nealy Cox and her husband, Trey Cox, managing partner at Gibson Dunn, are leading the charge. And they are determined to meet or beat the challenge on behalf of their community as Tocqueville Society Co-Chairs for the next three years – building toward United Way Dallas’ Centennial celebration.
United Way Dallas is a major market United Way and its Ruth Sharp Altshuler Tocqueville Society, comprised of donors giving $10,000 or more annually, currently ranks among the largest in the country in the number of giving households. But the Coxes, also longtime Tocqueville Society members, are determined to take the Dallas chapter to the number-one spot.
“We can do this!” says Nealy Cox, who is a partner in the Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations practice for Kirkland & Ellis. “It’s not a hard sell at all. When you look at United Way’s measurable outcomes in the focused areas of Education, Income and Health across our community, the results speak for themselves.”