Aaron I Fleischman

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Aaron I. Fleischman, of Miami Beach, Florida, is an investor. He founded and oversaw for more than 35 years a leading, eponymous Washington, D.C., law firm in the communications, telecom, and energy sectors. During a period of explosive growth and change in these industries, he and his firm were a dynamic presence on behalf of major clients in the development, shaping, and often transformation of their clients' businesses as well as their related industries. Mr. Fleischman has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary European and American art for more than 30 years. He has been a benefactor of museums and other institutions throughout the country, primarily in Miami; Washington, D.C.; New York; Cambridge; and Chicago. He has served on several corporate and museum boards, including the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He is presently on the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago. At The Met, Mr. Fleischman endowed a curatorial position in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2018. He is a former member of the department’s Visiting Committee. Together with his spouse, Linford L. Lougheed, he has supported several exhibitions, including a recent retrospective on David Hockney (2017).