Lee Daniels Net Worth
Sophia Edwards
Updated on March 15, 2026
Lee Daniels biography
Lee A. Daniels serves as Independent Trustee of the Company. Mr. Daniels is the managing principal of Lee Daniels & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm for government and community relations, which he founded in February 2007. Mr. Daniels also currently serves as Senior Adviser to the President at Elmhurst College. Mr. Daniels has served as a director of Inland Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. ("IREIT"), a publicly-registered non-traded real estate investment trust, since 2012. He is the Lead Independent Trustee and serves as Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of IREIT. Mr. Daniels served on the board of directors of Inland Diversified Real Estate Trust, Inc., a publicly-registered non-traded real estate investment trust from its inception in 2008 until its merger with Kite in 2014. Mr. Daniels founded Lee Daniels & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm for government and community relations, in February 2007. From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Daniels was a principal in a commercial real estate firm. From 1992 to 2006, Mr. Daniels was an equity partner at the Chicago law firm of Bell Boyd & Lloyd, and he had previously been an equity partner at Katten Muchin & Zavis from 1982 to 1991 and Daniels & Faris from 1967 to 1982. From 1971 to 1974, Mr. Daniels served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois. Mr. Daniels served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, and he was Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1995 to 1997 and the Republican Leader from 1983 to 2003. Mr. Daniels currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Haymarket Center, a nonprofit drug and alcohol treatment center in Chicago. He also previously served on the boards of Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Healthcare, the Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Foundation, Suburban Bank and Trust Company of Elmhurst, Elmhurst Federal Savings and Loan Association and the DuPage Easter Seals. Mr. Daniels received his bachelor degree from the
What is the salary of Lee Daniels?
As the Independent Trustee of Kite Realty Trust, the total compensation of Lee Daniels at Kite Realty Trust is $167,493. There are 13 executives at Kite Realty Trust getting paid more, with John Kite having the highest compensation of $5,995,440.