Randee and Joseph Seiger, '67

Building Support

As a new 1L, Joe Seiger first reacted to Michigan Law like so many other law students: He was
awestruck.

“I was quite taken with the architecture, and by how capable all the other students seemed,” says Seiger.

Appropriately, Seiger and his wife, Randee, BA ’67, have made a gift of $250,000 to the building project, to be recognized with the naming of an interview room in the Career Planning suite in their honor—a space that pleases Randee because it will touch so many students’ lives.

The Seigers, of Los Altos Hills, California, met at U-M, he a native of Washington, D.C., she a native of Michigan whose family ties to the University go back to the 1930s. Joe came to law school interested in real estate development, and after clerking for then-Professors Beverley Pooley and Terry Sandalow, was certain of his career path: “They were very much an influence,” he recalls.

After two years in Washington, D.C., where Joe held public sector jobs and earned a master of
law degree from George Washington University, the couple moved to the San Francisco Bay area,
their home ever since.

Joe served as assistant general counsel of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and general counsel to a publicly held real estate company, then in 1973 founded Vintage Properties, of which he remains a principal. The company’s portfolio includes a range of complex residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects honored for their design. As a volunteer, he advised on the development of a recently completed building for the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco.

Randee has pursued a career in the arts, dancing, creating ceramics, designing interiors, and cofounding a community outreach program, now a quarter-century old, that brings dance to
underserved children. The couple has two adult children.

The Seigers have also endowed a scholarship fund benefitting students interested in public
service, whose beneficiaries include Professor Eve Brensike Primus, ’01.

They were inspired to increase their building support to its current level after a construction tour last summer. Joe says, “I am very pleased with the building.”   “Buildings are important to us,”
adds Randee, “and we understand how they impact a community, its reputation, and its appeal.”