David B. Frohnmayer

Who is David B. Frohnmayer?

Dave Frohnmayer was the 15th President of the University of Oregon. He was appointed president on July 1, 1994. His last day as president was June 30, 2009. His tenure as president is the second-longest after John Wesley Johnson. He is the first native of the U.S. state of Oregon to run the University of Oregon. Frohnmayer previously served as the state of Oregon’s Attorney General from 1981 to 1991, and subsequently served as dean at the University of Oregon School of Law before serving as president of the entire university. He now serves in an "of counsel" attorney role with the Oregon law firm, Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C., where he reunites with several colleagues from his three terms as Oregon Attorney General.