EUGENE–Frank Lacy, a professor emeritus at the University of Oregon School of Law who helped guide the development of the school in his more than four decades of faculty service, will receive the law school’s 1999 Meritorious Service Award.

The Meritorious Service Award is given by the UO law faculty in recognition of outstanding service to the administration of justice and legal education in Oregon.

Lacy, 77, served on the UO law faculty from 1949 until his retirement in 1986, after which he continued teaching part-time until 1993.

Following his college graduation and service in the Army Air Force during World War II, Lacy attended law school at the University of Iowa. He practiced for a year in Dubuque before taking a position on the law faculty at the University of Oregon.

There were only a handful of faculty members at the UO law school when Lacy was hired. He soon took on a significant role in guiding the law school’s development.

Lacy was editor of the Oregon Law Review during his faculty tenure and was widely published throughout his career. From 1962-1966, he was a member of the Comparative Study of Administrative Justice, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, and served as a consultant to the commission on bankruptcy law that produced the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Lacy also traveled extensively in Yugoslavia, Israel, Austria and Japan, where he studied systems of civil and criminal procedures.

Lacy enjoys skiing, sailing, fly-fishing and mountain climbing and for several years led an annual faculty ascent of Mt. Washington with his faculty colleague, Chapin Clark.

Lacy is a native of Dubuque, Iowa, where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were lawyers. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College in 1946, his juris doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1948, his master of laws degree from New York University (NYU) in 1958 and his doctor of juristic science degree from NYU in 1972.

Lacy lives in Eugene with his wife, Johnnie.

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