Roy L. Steinheimer

Biography

After ten years of practice in New York City, Steinheimer joined the Michigan faculty, where he served until becoming the dean at Washington and Lee University School of Law in 1968.  The first dean to come from outside of the W&L faculty, Steinheimer instituted admissions policies that made the law school a stronger national institution with a more diverse student body. To meet the needs for modern and larger facilities, Lewis Hall (now Sydney Lewis Hall) was planned and constructed during Steinheimer's tenure as Dean. The move from Tucker Hall to Lewis Hall in 1976 symbolized the beginning of a new relationship for the School of Law both within the university and amongst other law schools.

At the end of his tenure as Dean in 1983, Steinheimer continued teaching as a professor of law until retiring with emeritus status in 1987. In 1989, he returned to W&L as an adjunct professor of law, a position he held until 1999.