International Directory of Business Biographies


Herb Kelleher Biography

Chairman, Southwest Airlines Company

Nationality: American.

Born: March 12, 1931, in Camden, New Jersey.

Education: Wesleyan University, BA, 1953; New York University, LLB, 1956.

Family: Son of Harry Kelleher (general manager at Campbell's Soup factory) and Ruth Moore; married Joan Negley, 1955; children: four.

Career: New Jersey Supreme Court, 1956–1959, clerk;...

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