Retired Oregon Court of Appeals Judge David Schuman, a once and future member of the UO School of Law faculty, is this year’s recipient of the school’s Frohnmayer Award for Public Service.

The award will be presented at a Nov. 7 ceremony at the Sentinel Hotel in Portland.

The Frohnmayer Award recognizes a member of the Oregon Law community whose public service brings honor to the school. The award was established in 2002 by the Law School Alumni Association and was named in honor of the family of Dave Frohnmayer, University of Oregon president emeritus and law professor.

Schuman has had a long career as a law professor, deputy attorney general and appellate judge. He joined the law school faculty in 1987 and taught constitutional law, criminal procedure, legislation and administrative law.

"David brought in abundance those three qualities of a great lawyer that Dean Orlando Hollis once named as his choices: intelligence, integrity, and a capacity for hard work…,” said former Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers in a nomination letter. “David’s public career is an achievement that should be a source of great pride for the School of Law."

Between 1994 and 1996 he also served as associate dean for academic affairs. While at the UO, he received the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s highest teaching honor.

Schuman became deputy attorney general in 1997. He briefly returned to the law school faculty in 2001 before Gov. John Kitzhaber appointed him to the Oregon Court of appeals.

He was elected to a full six-year term in 2002 and re-elected in 2008. Schuman retired this year and plans to return to the law school faculty in 2015.

Schuman earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, a master’s from San Francisco State University and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Chicago. He received a law degree from the UO, graduating with honors in 1984.

Subsequently, he served as judicial clerk to Judge Hans Linde of the Oregon Supreme Court and then as an assistant attorney general in the appellate division of the Oregon Department of Justice.