Ira Michael Heyman

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Ira Michael Heyman (right) as the newly elected Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution with his predecessor Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (1994)

Ira Michael Heyman (born May 30, 1930 in New York City , † November 19, 2011 in Berkeley , California ) was an American law scholar and professor who was Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley between 1980 and 1990 and from 1994 until 1999 was Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .

Life

Degree, professor and chancellor at UC Berkeley

After attending the Bronx High School of Science and the Horace Mann School , Heymann first completed an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College , from which he graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB). He then did his military service in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War and was last promoted to lieutenant . After the end of the war, he began studying law at the Law School of Yale University, graduating in 1956 with a Juris Doctor (JD) and was editor of the Yale Law Journal during his studies .

After completing his studies, Heyman worked from 1957 to 1958 as a legal assistant to Charles E. Clark, a judge responsible for the second judicial district at the US Court of Appeals , and then from 1958 to 1959 as a legal assistant to Earl Warren , the Chief Justice of the United States .

In 1959, at the age of 29, Heymann accepted a professorship for law at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and taught there for 24 years until 1993. In addition to his teaching activities, he was Vice Chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1974 to 1980 before he succeeded Albert H. Bowker as Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980 . He held this office for ten years until he was replaced by Chang-Lin Tien in 1990. Heyman, who was also a trustee of Dartmouth College, then took over the Selvin Professorship of Law at UC Berkeley between 1990 and 1993.

Vice Under Secretary of State for the Home Office and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Heyman, who was a member of the Democratic Party , became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the US Department of the Interior in 1993 and was one of the closest associates of Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt until 1994 .

In 1994 Heyman, who had also served as chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Colleges, succeeded Robert McCormick Adams Jr. as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and held that position for five years until he was replaced by Lawrence M. Small . In 1995 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Heyman, who was married twice and had a son, died of complications from pulmonary emphysema .

Publications

  • Civil rights USA Public Schools. Cities in the North and West, 1963, Oakland , 1964
  • Authorities and organization. Legal analysis and recommendations for implementing a coastal zone management program , co-author Donald O. Gralnek, 1977
  • Chancellor, 1980-1990, Vice Chancellor, and professor of law, UC Berkeley, and secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999. Interviews 1995-2001 , 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Heyman, Ira Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, professor, and university president
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2011
Place of death Berkeley , California