David B. Frohnmayer

David B. Frohnmayer
Frohnmayer in 2009
Attorney General of Oregon
In office January 5, 1981 – December 31, 1991
Preceded by	James M. Brown
Succeeded by	Charles S. Crookham
President of the University of Oregon
In office July 1, 1994 – June 30, 2009
Preceded by	Myles Brand
Succeeded by	Richard W. Lariviere
Personal details
Born	July 9, 1940 Medford, Oregon
Died	March 10, 2015(2015-03-10) (aged 74) Eugene, Oregon
Political party	Republican
Profession	Attorney

David B. "Dave" Frohnmayer (July 9, 1940 – March 10, 2015) was an American attorney, politician, and university administrator from Oregon. He was the 15th president of the University of Oregon (UO), serving from 1994 to 2009. His tenure as president was the second-longest after John Wesley Johnson. He was the first native Oregonian to run the UO. Frohnmayer previously served as Oregon 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 university. He served in an "of counsel" attorney role with the Oregon law firm, Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C.

David Braden Frohnmayer was born in Medford, Oregon. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1962. He attended Wadham College, Oxford 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.

Frohnmayer was elected as Oregon Attorney General in November 1980, defeating Democrat Harl H. Haas, Jr., and was sworn into office on January 5, 1981. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1988, when he was nominated by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Frohnmayer served as Attorney General until his resignation on December 31, 1991, when he became Dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. As Attorney General, one of his most notable cases involved leading the prosecution of members of the Rajneesh movement (followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.) Frohnmayer prevailed in six out of the seven cases that he took to the United States Supreme Court.