»Doy B. Henley
Featured Story: Chapman Announces $1 Million Gift from Doy Henley for Innovation
- CEO & Owner, Henley Properties, Inc.
- Former CFO & Owner, Aeromil Engineering Company
- Former Owner, Cox Hobbies, Inc.
- Chairman Emeritus, Board of Trustees, Chapman University
Mr. Doy B. Henley is CEO and owner of Henley Properties, Inc., in Santa Ana, California. He was the chief financial officer and owner of Aeromil Engineering Company, a computer-automated manufacturing firm functioning within the aerospace industry, until he sold the operating companies in 1998. He was also the owner of Cox Hobbies, Inc., a Santa Ana and Corona-based maker of radio-controlled model cars and gliders. Additionally, he served as CEO and Chair of a publicly held company on the New York Stock Exchange. Presently, he operates Henley Properties, Inc, a property management company.
Mr. Henley has served on the Private Industry Council of Santa Ana as chairman, and as a delegate for the White House Conference on Small Business. He has served as chairman, treasurer and president of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, a political activist group that is committed to exercising personal responsibility as freedom’s most essential element in order to secure individual liberties.
Mr. Henley joined the Chapman Family in 1986 as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees and continues to serve the university as a committed leader and loyal friend to this day. Mr. Henley became chairman of the board in 2013 and is currently serving as chairman emeritus. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Fowler School of Law.
Mr. Henley and his late wife, Dee, have contributed to almost every major scholarship program and capital project at Chapman over their more than 30 years of service to our university. They’ve even given significantly in support of individual students who were either in dire financial straits or wanted desperately to fulfill a dream, like studying abroad for a semester. In 2015, Mr. Henley was honored with the C.C. Chapman Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor our university bestows.
Over the years the Henleys have dedicated their time and financial resources to a number of philanthropic organizations, including the Salvation Army, Goodwill Industries, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Orange, and the Lincoln Club of Orange County.
At Chapman, the Henleys have made possible the Doy B. Henley Chair in American Presidential Studies, the Doy and Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Henley Residence Hall, the Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room in Leatherby Libraries, Dee’s Garden of the Senses at Fish Interfaith Center, and the annual Doy’s Holiday Tree Lighting. In 2024, Doy established the Doy B Henley School of Management and Business Technology within the Argyros College of Business and Economics.