Elizabeth Dietz
Program Director
As Program Director, Beth collaborates with the Senior Director of Gift Planning Strategic Operations to document deferred and structured gifts to Notre Dame, including estate and trust gifts. She also works with fiduciaries and families of deceased benefactors on trust and estate administration matters to facilitate gifts to the University consistent with benefactors' philanthropic goals. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. After law school, Beth clerked for a federal district court judge in Memphis and worked as a banking associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins, where she focused on representing clients in syndicated secured commercial loan transactions. Before joining the Gift Planning team in 2022, Beth was an adjunct professor of legal writing in the Notre Dame Law School. Beth and her husband, Joe (also a Notre Dame graduate), have two children.
Biography
As Associate Program Director, Beth collaborates with the Senior Director of Gift Planning Strategic Operations to document deferred and structured gifts to Notre Dame, including estate and trust gifts. She also works with fiduciaries and families of deceased benefactors on trust and estate administration matters to facilitate gifts to the University consistent with benefactors' philanthropic goals. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. After law school, Beth clerked for a federal district court judge in Memphis and worked as a banking associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins, where she focused on representing clients in syndicated secured commercial loan transactions. Before joining the Gift Planning team in 2022, Beth was an adjunct professor of legal writing in the Notre Dame Law School. Beth and her husband, Joe (also a Notre Dame graduate), have two children.