Herb Kelleher, chairman of Southwest Airlines, speaks at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Dallas. Photo: Jon Freilich/ Bloomberg News.
Born in New Jersey, Herbert David Kelleher graduated from New York University Law School and practiced on the East Coast before moving to Texas in 1962 to practice law. Kelleher and his client, Rollin King, founded Southwest Airlines five years later. His law background helped in the many legal battles involved in making the airline one of the world's most successful.
January 04, 2019 at 04:39 PM
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Herbert Kelleher rose from a San Antonio lawyer for an upstart intra-Texas airline to become co-founder and head of Southwest Airlines, revolutionizing the industry along the way. On Thursday, Kelleher died at the age of 87.
The airline made the announcement without giving a cause or place of death.
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