David B. Frohnmayer

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Dave Frohnmayer (born July 9, 1940, Medford, Oregon) is the 15th President of the University of Oregon. Appointed on July 1, 1994, Frohnmayer is now the second-longest serving UO president behind John Welsey Johnson. He is the first native Oregonian to run the University of Oregon.

Dave Frohnmayer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1962. He then attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

Frohnmayer, a Republican, served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981, representing southern Eugene.

Dave Frohnmayer was elected as Oregon's Attorney General in November 1980, and was sworn into office on January 5, 1981. Re-elected in 1984 and 1988, Frohnmayer served as Attorney General until his resignation on December 31, 1991, when he assumed his duties as Dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. As Attorney General, one of his most notable cases involved leading the prosecution of Rajneeshees, followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Frohnmayer also personally represented Oregon in seven cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, winning six times.

Frohnmayer was the Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1990, losing the election to Democratic candidate Barbara Roberts.

He served as Dean of the University of Oregon School of Law from January 1, 1992 until his assumption of duties as President of the University in 1994. Frohnmayer plans to step down as UO president in 2008. ^[1]

Dave Frohnmayer is active in support of research into treatment of the disease Fanconi anemia. Two of his daughters died from complications arising from this disease. He was a founding Director of the National Marrow Donor Program and served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, Inc.

Frohnmayer's father Otto Frohnmayer was a noted southern Oregon lawyer. His brother, John Frohnmayer, served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts under the administration of President George H.W. Bush. His son is Mark Frohnmayer, lead programmer of Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2 at Dynamix before leaving to co-found GarageGames with Jeff Tunnell, Rick Overman and Tim Gift.

Dave Frohnmayer resides with his wife Lynn Frohnmayer in Eugene, Oregon.

Preceded by James M. Brown

Oregon Attorney General 1981 – 1991

Succeeded by Charles Crookham

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• President's Office - Official University of Oregon President site