TCU School of Medicine to be renamed in honor of Anne Burnett Marion

The TCU School of Medicine will be renamed the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine, TCU officials announced Monday in a press release.

The school will be known as the Burnett School of Medicine and is named in honor of Fort Worth native and philanthropist Anne Burnett Marion.

Marion died in February 2020, but the Burnett Foundation she had directed and her estate gave a $25 million endowment to support the operations of the school in September of the same year. A second gift of $25 million was made this month.

“During her lifetime, Anne Marion’s support of the university through her service as a trustee and her philanthropy played a vital role in strengthening TCU’s academic profile and reputation,” TCU Chancellor Victor Boschini said in the press release. “Her investment of $50 million in our School of Medicine enhances her legacy and will have a momentous influence on TCU for the next 150 years.”

Marion was an honorary trustee of TCU and gave to numerous projects of the university in addition to the school of medicine, according to the press release.

According to the Burnett School of Medicine website, Marion said, “I am inspired by the vision of the School of Medicine to transform medical education. This school is bringing considerable advances and innovations that are reshaping curriculum and preparing its graduates to better serve the community.”

Marion’s charitable giving also included art museums in Fort Worth and other parts of the nation.

The first class of medical students will graduate from the Burnett School of Medicine in 2023.

A new campus for the Burnett School of Medicine is underway on the corner of South Henderson and West Rosedale streets in the Near Southside of Fort Worth. The approximately 100,000-square-foot, four-story building is scheduled to be completed in 2024.