George Hopper Faculty Research and Student Support Fund

George William Hopper was born in Cleveland and graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1951 with a Bachelor of Science degree with honors. He moved with his family to Cody, Wyoming in 1952 where his father served as an Episcopal parish priest. Hopper graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law with honors in 1956. During his time as a student, he served as Chancellor of the Potter Law Club and as Editor-in-Chief of the Wyoming Law Journal. He was also instrumental in founding Omicron Delta Kappa national student leadership honorary society. Following his graduation, Hopper became an associate at Byron Hirst, Esq. of Cheyenne and in 1960 was appointed Trial Attorney in the S.E.C. Regional Office in Denver. He resigned that position to be a visiting professor in the College of Law during the 1963-64 academic year, teaching securities law. He then practiced securities law in Denver with the firm of Hopper & Kanouff, P.C. Throughout this career, Hopper maintained ties to the university and organized meetings and reunions for alumni in the Denver area. He died in 1986. Sally Hunter Hopper, his widow, and Carl M. Williams, a classmate, contributed to the costs of the law library addition, which was finished in 1993. The George William Hopper Law Library was dedicated on November 6, 1993. A bronze bust of Hopper, created by sculptor George Lundeen, is on display in the library.