Background
Best, Franklin Luther was born on December 14, 1945 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Franklin L. and Hazel M. (Yearick) Best.
Best, Franklin Luther was born on December 14, 1945 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Franklin L. and Hazel M. (Yearick) Best.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1967; Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania, 1970; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1994.
Association, MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, Philadelphia, 1970-1974; assistant counsel, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia, 1974-1977; assistant general counsel, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia, 1978-1984; associate general counsel, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia, since 1985; counsel, assistant secretary, Penn Insurance and Annuity Company, Philadelphia, 1983-1996; counsel, secretary, Penn Insurance and Annuity Company, Philadelphia, since 1996. Lecturer Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1976-1984.
Board of directors Center City South Neighborhood Association, 1979-1980, president, 1978-1979. Member Committee of Seventy, 1978-1984. Secretary Washington Square Association, 1977-1987.
Member 30th Ward Republican Executive Committee, 1972-1984, West Pikeland Township Open Spaces Committee, since 1987, chairperson, since 1995, planning commission, since 1994, chairperson, since 1996. Member American Bar Association, International Claim Association (secretary since 1995, Executive Committee 1979-1981, 85-88), American Arbitration Association (panel of arbitrators since 1992), Philadelphia Bar Association, Yale Club of Philadelphia.
Married Kimberly R., May 1, 1982.