Roy Eisenhardt (born 1939) is a lawyer and former president of the

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and member of the Haas family of San Francisco.

Biography

Eisenhardt was born to a middle-class,

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, the son of Catheryn T. and Emil Henry Eisenhardt. His father was the director of purchasing at a local university and his mother was a professor of English and Linguistics. His paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Germany. He has one brother and one sister. He attended

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and then graduated from

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in 1960. After school he served two years in the

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before returning to the United States to attend law school at

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where he graduated in 1965. He then went to Germany to study tax law and upon returning, worked in business law at the firm of Farella, Braun, & Martel in

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and then in 1975, he began teaching at UC Berkeley School of Law. In 1980, he served as president of

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then owned by his father-in-law, Walter A. Haas Jr. who he had helped to negotiate the purchase of the A's from

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for $12.7 million. He served as president from 1981 to 1986.

Personal life

In 1965, he married fellow attorney Auban Slay; they divorced in 1976. In 1978, he married Betsy Haas, daughter of businessman Walter A. Haas Jr. and Evelyn Danzig Haas. They have two children: Jesse Eisenhardt and Sarah Eisenhardt. Jesse is a cinematographer and director; he is married to attorney Allison Hoover who serves on the board of the San Francisco CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and with her father-in-law on the board of the

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References

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