George Ranney

Life Director

George A. Ranney has been a Field Foundation board member since 1978.

He has also served on the boards of the MacArthur, Spencer, Arthur M. Brazier and Liberty Prairie Foundations, as well as the board of the University of Chicago, the Conservation Fund, the Metropolitan Planning Council, and the Center for Humans and Nature.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1962, and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1966, where he was Editor-in Chief of the Law Review. After working for the Chicago Legal Aid Bureau Ranney became Deputy Director of the Illinois Budget Bureau under Governor Richard Ogilvie, where he was responsible for legislation behind the Budget Bureau, the Illinois Income Tax and the Regional Transportation Authority.