Ambassador Sol Myron Linowitz (December 7, 1913 – March 18, 2005) was a Senior Partner of the international law firm Coudert Brothers in Washington, D.C. Linowitz emerged from an immigrant Jewish household during the Great Depression to become a Phi Beta Kappa college graduate who earned his law degree from Cornell in 1938, where he was first in his class. He rose to the Chairmanship of Xerox Corporation in its early days of spectacular growth. By 1966, the little company had become one of the 12 largest corporations in the United States with $4.5 billion in market value. Sol Linowitz went on to accept President Lyndon Johnson's appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States. In 1976, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Co-Negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties, and then became the Personal Representative of the President for Middle East Negotiations from 1979 to 1981. Ambassador Linowitz was also Co-Chairman of the National Urban Coalition and served on innumerable corporate and university boards. He wrote two books, "The Making of a Public Man: A Memoir" and "The Betrayed Profession." Sol Linowitz, a forceful advocate for legal ethics, was awarded more than 35 honorary degrees, and, in 1998, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton, the nation's highest civilian honor. Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz participated in the 1985 Achievement Summit and spoke to the student delegates about the personal satisfaction he received from serving his country.