Louis A. Toepfer

Louis Adelbert Toepfer was the second President of Case [Western Reserve University].
Toepfer was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on August 31, 1919.
Toepfer earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Beloit College in 1940. He married his college sweetheart, Alice Mary Willy, in 1942. During World War II, he served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, primarily on the USS [Healy (DD-672)|USS Healy], a destroyer in the Pacific Ocean theater of [World War II|Pacific theater]. In 1947, he graduated from Harvard Law School. Upon graduation, Toepfer became a member of Harvard Law School's faculty, and served as the school's vice dean from 1950 to 1966.
In 1966, Toepfer came to Case Western Reserve University as dean of the Case [Western Reserve University School of Law|School of Law]. He served as the second president of Case Western Reserve University from 1970 to 1980. Upon retirement, he joined the national law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue as partner in charge of opening and managing the firm's new office in Columbus, Ohio.