EUGENE–University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer will receive from the alumni association of his law school alma mater its highest award–the 1999 Citation Award.

Frohnmayer, a 1967 graduate of Boalt Hall, the University of California at Berkeley’s school of law, will receive the award in recognition of "exceptional achievement by a Boalt Hall alumnus who distinguishes him/herself in the legal profession and has thereby brought renown to the law school."

At Boalt, Frohnmayer was a member of the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law students who represent the top 10 percent of their graduating class, and served as editor of the California Law Review. He also was selected by classmates to be their graduation speaker.

Before attending law school at Berkeley, Frohnmayer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1962 and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1964. In 1988, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from Willamette University and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate of public service from the University of Portland.

Frohnmayer was appointed president of the University of Oregon, the state’s 123-year-old center for liberal arts, science and professional studies, effective July 1, 1994. He formerly served as dean of the UO School of Law, assuming those duties at Oregon’s only public law school on Jan. 1, 1992.

Frohnmayer served as Oregon’s Attorney General from 1981—1992 and represented Oregon before the U.S. Supreme Court, personally arguing seven cases–the best record of any current state attorney general. He served as president of the National Association of Attorneys General for 1987-1988. In June 1987, he received that organization’s prestigious Wyman Award, given each year to the single state attorney general who best exemplifies the goals of the office.

Before his election to statewide office, he served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives, was a law professor at the UO School of Law and served as legal adviser to the UO president.

Frohnmayer has received numerous awards and professional recognition. He is a two-time winner of the American Bar Foundation Weaver Essay Competition and won the American Bar Association Ross Essay Competition in 1980. He was granted the 1981 Roger W. Williams Freedom of Information Award and the 1995 UO Pioneer Award.

Other awards Frohnmayer has received include the 1996 Oregon Association of Broadcasters Tom McCall Award; the 1997 Providence Child Center Heart of Gold Award, along with his wife Lynn; the 1998 Aubrey R. Watzek Award from the trustees of Lewis & Clark College; the 1998 Bank of America/SOLV Tom McCall Leadership Award; and along with Lynn Frohnmayer, the 1999 First Citizens of Eugene Award.

A Medford native, Dave Frohnmayer currently makes his home in Eugene with his wife and three children. Dave and Lynn Frohnmayer are founders of the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, Inc., based in Eugene. This foundation funds path-breaking genetic research and sponsors an annual one-of-a-kind international symposium. The Frohnmayers are also founders of the Fanconi Anemia support group, for similarly afflicted families around the world, and Dave is one of the founding directors of the National Marrow Donor Program.

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