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Ward was already planning exit
Even before Hunter Harrison began pushing for his job, Michael Ward was planning his retirement as CEO of Jacksonville-based CSX Corp. Harrison, the recently retired CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., wants to take over CSX and was trying to negotiate an agreement with the company. Harrison is working with hedge fund Mantle Ridge, which controls 4.9 percent of CSX stock. After discussions stalled, CSX last week said it will hold a special meeting to let shareholders
decide if they should accept Harrison’s contract demands. However, CSX said in its announcement about the meeting that it was already looking for Ward’s successor. “CSX had been engaged in CEO succession discussions and was planning to make an announce-
ment,” the company said in the news release. But “in light of Mr. Harrison’s notable experience and accomplishments,” the board decided to open talks with Harrison when he expressed interest. The 66-year-old Ward had planned to retire in 2016 before his heir apparent, then-CSX President Oscar Munoz, left to become CEO of United Continental Holdings Inc. in September 2015. Ward then agreed to stay on for three more years. BASCH CONTINUED ON PAGE A-7
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CSX head agreed to stay after Munoz left
Michael Ward, CEO of Jacksonville-based CSX Corp., had planned to retire in 2016.
JU focuses on health to honor Fran Kinne
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By Karen Brune Mathis Managing Editor
Christian George was elected president-elect for 2017 of the Young Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar. Serving in Bar organizations is something he was taught by Rut Liles, a Jacksonville attorney for whom George worked and who served as a mentor to him.
Paying mentoring forward
YLD president-elect learned value of helping others early By Marilyn Young Editor When Christian George enrolled at the University of Florida, he didn’t have a career in mind. But he knew he wanted to have a good time at college. During his junior year, George realized, “Oh, this is going to end soon, I need to figure this out.” He asked Pensacola attorney Phil Bates, the father of a friend, if he could work in his office that summer. It was then — between George’s intern duties of sweeping floors and getting lunch — that he found his career. Bates took George to a three-day bench trial where two co-owners of an education
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company were splitting up the business. He was intrigued as he watched from the back of the courtroom. “Just watching him work made me realize that, ‘Hey, I want to do this,’” said George, a partner in the Litigation Practice Group at Akerman. Bates and others, including Jacksonville attorney Rut Liles, taught George about the importance of having a mentor. George, 35, has paid that lesson forward during his career, particularly through his work with The Jacksonville Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section and The Florida Bar’s Young Lawyers Division. He’s president of YLS and was recently elected president-elect for 2017 of YLD, an office he’ll assume in June, then be president of the statewide group in June 2018.
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George said his first year at UF’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law was the toughest. Things had come easily to him during undergrad, but he “realized I couldn’t go halfway” in law school. He found it stimulating. “It’s almost like they teach you how to think rather than just study,” he said. “You know, how to think is more important than the substance of the matter.” George interned for Bates the summer after his first year in law school. He learned how to research paper books, even though secretly, he was using the computer, he said. Bates also taught him to write documents worthy of submitting GEORGE
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“Feeling Fine,” the second in the Jacksonville University Women’s Breakfast Series for 2016-17, focused on health. The series honors the upcoming 100th birthday of Chancellor Emerita Frances Bartlett Kinne, “who exemplifies good health,” said the invitation. Kym Seavey Dunton and Heather Hausenblas comprised the panel that met Friday morning at the Jessie Ball duPont Center Downtown. Dunton, a registered nurse, is the senior consultant and certified health coach for the Women’s Health Strategy at Baptist Health. Hausenblas is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the School of Applied Health Sciences in the JU Brooks Rehabilitation College of Hausenblas Healthcare Sciences. The hourlong discussion covered workplace wellness, exercise and other topics. Among the advice:
Get those 10,000 steps a day
It’s not as difficult as you might think to accumulate steps. Talk with a co-worker in person rather than by email, necessitating a walk. Use a printer in another room or another building. Set your phone across your room. Park further from the door. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Plus, 10,000 steps are actually a minimum. It takes more to lose weight. Dunton said trackers show the average American takes about 5,000 steps a day. Get up and move at least once an hour if you have a desk job. “How about little movements like every
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