Elizabeth F. Stribling, who also goes by Libba, is the chairman of Stribling, the high-end New York City residential brokerage firm she co-founded in 1980 with Connie Tysen. The company, an international associate of Savills PLC, does about 600 deals annually totaling more than $1 billion. In 2013, Striblings daughter Elizabeth Ann Kivlan replaced her as president.

Stribling was born in Atlanta in 1944 and has lived in New York City since she was seven years old. She is a member of the board of governors of the Real Estate Board of New York, the executive board of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, and the board of The Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy.

She is a graduate of the Hewitt School, Vassar College, and did graduate work in English literature at Girton College, Cambridge University in England. After her first husband died, she remarried in 1997, to Guy N. Robinson, an investment manager.

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