Franchisee attorney Richard A. Solomon, of Houston, passed away at home on May 19, 2017, from cardiac arrest. Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 14, 1937, Solomon was taken in by a Catholic orphanage and was later adopted by a Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina.
He attended The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in European languages. He knew French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and German. Solomon graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1963 with a Juris Doctor degree in international antitrust law.
At first he worked for General Mills Inc. as its antitrust lawyer for eight years as well as General Motors, then was the senior partner and founding principal of the law firm Solomon, Foley & Moran for twelve.
Solomon married and divorced franchise lawyer Sally Lee Foley, a past president of the National Association of Women Lawyers. He is survived by a daughter, who is a practicing physician, her husband and their two boys.
Over the past 25 years, Richard’s companion was Belinda Matte.
“Every day was a new one with something new and exciting happening,” said Matte. She added, “I hated it when he treated me like a client when he was my lawyer on several matters. He was tough but usually right.”
Solomon was a certified airplane pilot and at one time an avid motorcyclist.
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Posted on: 2017-06-07
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