H. King McGlaughon, Jr., JD, MDiv
Executive Vice President
Sallie B. and William B. Wallace Chair in Philanthropy
Professor of Philanthropic Studies

Areas of Expertise:
Charitable giving; trust and estate planning; exempt and charitable organizations, including private foundations and supporting organizations; nonprofit and foundation management and governance; planned giving; nonprofit fund-raising; ethics of philanthropy and fund-raising; cross-border and international philanthropy; fiduciary law and administration.

Course Responsibilities:
GS 839 Charitable Giving
GS 849 Charitable Giving Applications
GS 859 Charitable Giving: Managing the Tools,
the Applications, and the Relationships

H. King McGlaughon, Jr., JD, MDiv, is executive vice president of The American College, where he oversees all activities of the Academic Division. He also holds the Sallie B. and William B. Wallace Chair in Philanthropy at The American College. As Wallace Chairholder in Philanthropy, Mr. McGlaughon directs and manages the College's Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) program, which seeks to advance education, knowledge, and professionalism in the field of philanthropy for professional and volunteer staff of nonprofit organizations, as well as advisors in various professions and the financial services industries that support individual donors across the nation. His responsibilities include the continuing development, promotion, and implementation of the courses in the CAP curriculum, including GS 839 Charitable Giving, GS 849 Application of the Tools of Philanthropy, and GS 859 Management of the Tools of Philanthropy.

Prior to joining the faculty of The American College, Mr. McGlaughon served as a first vice president at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., in its Wealth Management Services Division, and as director of The Merrill Lynch Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Management, in Princeton, New Jersey. In this capacity, Mr. McGlaughon managed the development, implementation, and delivery of financial, planning, and asset management products, services, consulting, and strategic initiatives for individual clients of Merrill Lynch engaged in philanthropy, for client private-family foundations, and for Merrill Lynch client nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Mr. McGlaughon also consulted directly with affluent clients of the firm involved in creating substantial current and deferred gifts as well as private family foundations and supporting organizations, and supported planned giving consultative services to nonprofit organizations that are clients of the firm. Mr. McGlaughon is a frequent speaker at national, regional, and local conferences and continuing education programs in the areas of philanthropy, estate planning, planned giving, and nonprofit management, including issues around the use of evolving technologies by nonprofit organizations.

Mr. McGlaughon received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead Scholar. He received his JD, with honors, from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of The North Carolina Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif, the national legal honorary society. Mr. McGlaughon also received his MDiv, with honors, from The General Theological Seminary in New York City, NY, where he received a doctoral fellowship to do post-graduate work in ethics at General, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary, while fulfilling teaching responsibilities at General Seminary in the areas of theology and ethics. He is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church.

In addition to 10 years in private law practice in North Carolina, specializing in real estate finance and development, and banking and commercial law, Mr. McGlaughon has worked as a planned-giving consultant and endowment advisor for various dioceses and parishes of the Episcopal Church across the United States. Mr. McGlaughon also served as senior account executive at Renaissance, Inc., a private, for-profit financial planning consulting firm in Indianapolis, IN, concentrating in the area of charitable remainder trust planning, implementation, and administration. In that position, Mr. McGlaughon worked extensively with financial planners, insurance professionals, money managers, brokers, attorneys, and accountants, primarily within the midwestern United States; assisting their clients to create, operate, and serve as trustees of charitable remainder trusts.

Mr. McGlaughon was admitted to the bar in North Carolina in 1976, and serves on various boards and advisory committees for public and private foundations in the United States.

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