After earning bachelor’s and law degrees from the university, Knox’s successful career has run the gamut from restaurants to oil and gas.
“SMU helped shape me as a person and as a professional,” Knox said in a statement.Knox, who received bachelor’s and law degrees from SMU, is a longtime Dallas-area business leader. He’s general partner of Texas Flags Ltd., which owns the real estate and facilities of Six Flags Over Texas. He’s also the owner of Café Pacific Restaurants Inc., parent company of the popular restaurant based in Dallas’ Highland Park Village since 1980, and chairman of Sixx Holdings Inc.
At various points in his career, Knox also ran oil and gas businesses, serving as chairman and CEO of public companies Summit Energy Inc. and Western Oil Fields. He remains active in the ranching business west of Fort Worth, where he’s been managing director of Knox Land & Cattle since its formation in 1960.“Jack’s generous gift will help to strengthen the university and encourage others to support SMU,” Turner said.
“Jack and I have been close friends since we were both students at SMU,” said Dallas businessman Ray Hunt, an SMU trustee and co-chair of the fundraising drive. “Typically, Jack has worked hard to keep his many successes low-profile in nature – but this important gift from Jack to SMU is the exception to that rule.”Texas Instruments CEO Rich Templeton and his wife, Mary,
to bolster its engineering school. Those funds will support research, provide financial assistance to doctoral students and pay for undergraduate scholarships, as well as endow the school’s dean position.. Paul directs the work of an award-winning staff covering business news in the nation's fourth largest metro region. He's been The News' business editor since 2015. Before that, he was editor-in-chief at the Dallas Business Journal and business editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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