Obituaries : C.J. Meyers; Lawyer, Former Stanford Dean
Charles J. Meyers, a former Stanford Law School dean and a senior partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, died Sunday at his home in Denver.
Meyers, who was suffering from cancer, was 62. He joined Stanford’s law faculty in 1962 and served as dean of the law school from 1976 to 1981, when he moved to Colorado to help open the Denver office of Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Meyers was the author of books on oil, gas, and water law. He began his teaching career at the University of Texas at Austin, and was a law professor at Columbia University for a number of years before going to Stanford.
He was a member of the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board, to which he was appointed in 1982.
Meyers is survived by his wife Pamela; a son, George F.; a daughter, Katherine Garon; his parents, P.A. and Katherine Meyers, and a brother, James R.
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