NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ELECTS SNELL & WILMER TUCSON PARTNER JEFFREY WILLIS TO CHAIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS TUCSON (June 5, 2017) – Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Willis, partner in the firm’s Tucson office, will become chair of the Northern Arizona University Foundation board of directors. His appointment is effective July 1, 2017. The Northern Arizona University Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1959 for the purpose of stimulating voluntary private support for the benefit of Northern Arizona University. It specifically works to: promote the university’s mission, enhance its recognition, foster private investment from a broad base of constituents, develop a culture of philanthropy, make excellent education accessible to all, make high quality research possible and encourage outreach for the public good. At Snell & Wilmer, Willis has a regional commercial litigation practice. He Jeffrey Willis regularly appears in Federal and State Courts in Arizona, Nevada and California. He is an experienced trial lawyer representing sophisticated clients in a variety of matters before courts and juries in the Southwest. Willis is a graduate of the Northern Arizona University honors program and has served on the Foundation Board since 2005. About Snell & Wilmer Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 400 attorneys practicing in nine locations throughout the western United States and in Mexico, including Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Los Angeles and Orange County, California; Denver, Colorado; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit www.swlaw.com. ###