Jim Lebenthal

Jim Lebenthal is chairman emeritus and former president of Lebenthal & Company, a full‑service investment firm in New York City that specializes in municipal bonds. Advest, Inc., purchased Lebenthal & Company in December 2001. Prior to joining his family firm in the late 1960s, Lebenthal held many of the most coveted jobs in the country. He was a filmmaker for Walt Disney—receiving an Academy Award nomination in 1959 for Best Short Feature. He was the Life Magazine Hollywood correspondent, and wrote advertisements for Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam.