Junius Hoffman ’44

Junius Hoffman ’44 died July 17, 2010, in Tucson, Arizona. Junie was born in Augusta, Maine, and spent most of his childhood in Maine and Columbus, Ohio. He graduated Dartmouth in 1943 and became an officer in the Navy for the duration of WW II. After the war, he received a master’s from Harvard University and an LL.B. from Yale Law School. He returned to the Midwest and worked for 13 years in Cleveland, Ohio, at the law firm Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis, eventually becoming a partner there. In 1967 he moved to Tucson to become a professor of law at the University of Arizona. He taught corporations and securities regulation and other business law courses to several generations of law students. In 1983 he was appointed settlement master for what was then the largest securities fraud trial in history. This class action was brought against the Washington Public Power Supply System. Junie delighted in all things educational and had a low tolerance for bad grammar. He always taught in a coat and tie and took great pleasure in his old-fashioned style. Not only did he steadfastly refuse to use a computer, but he was not fond of the digital phone. Survivors include his wife, Joanne, daughter Prue, son Rick and wife Libby and three grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Jean, and by his son Michael.