April 11, 2023

Finding Joy in Others’ Successes

When Annelle Whitt’s husband, James Whitt, passed in November 2021, she knew she wanted to create a foundation to honor and continue her husband’s legacy of entrepreneurship and support for minority and women-owned business enterprises. “My husband really found joy in people’s successes,” Whitt recalled. “He literally spent his last days on this earth helping minority and women business enterprises. It was so important to him.” She says that she wouldn’t have been able to do it without the University of Missouri School of Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC). Annelle Whitt founded the James and Annelle Whitt Entrepreneurial Development Foundation…