Ira Michael Heyman
| Ira Michael Heyman | |
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Secretary Adams with Secretary-Elect Ira Michael Heyman, 1994
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| 10th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution | |
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In office 1994–1999 |
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| Preceded by | Robert McCormick Adams |
| Succeeded by | Lawrence M. Small |
| 6th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley | |
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In office 1980–1990 |
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| Preceded by | Albert H. Bowker |
| Succeeded by | Chang-Lin Tien |
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May 30, 1930 New York City, New York |
| Died | November 19, 2011 (aged 81) Berkeley, California |
| Spouse(s) | Therese Thau |
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Ira Michael Heyman (May 30, 1930 – November 19, 2011) was a Professor of Law and of City and Regional Planning, and was Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, and in 1951 from Dartmouth College. After serving as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the Korean War, he entered Yale Law School, where he became editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation in 1956, he served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Edward Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then from 1958 to 1959 he was a clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren.
He joined the law faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and he became Vice Chancellor in 1974. He was named Berkeley's sixth Chancellor and served in that capacity from 1980 to 1990. He returned to teaching law after leaving the Chancellorship. He was Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, from 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 2000. At Dartmouth he joined Theta Chi. During his Berkeley years he became a member of the Bohemian Grove, at which his closest associates included Caspar Weinberger.
He died of emphysema in 2011.
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