As many of his peers can attest, Jim King, the recipient of ENR Southwest’s Legacy Award, embodies the very definition of the prize. In his stewardship of Bradbury Stamm Construction over more than four decades, King expanded the company, which was founded in 1923, into one of the biggest contractors in the Southwest.
But on another front, one that King considers equally if not more important, he and his wife, Ellen, have become leading benefactors in Albuquerque. They have made hefty endowments to the University of New Mexico School of Engineering as well as philanthropic donations to a host of other organizations, ranging from the UNM Dermatology School, where the couple endowed a chair, to the city’s cancer institute to funding for area music groups and a home for autistic children.