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University of Arizona alumnus and former National Park Service Ranger Butch Farabee will deliver this year’s Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice on Monday, November 9.
Known in the field as the “Ranger’s Ranger,” Farabee will share anecdotes from a colorful career brimming with lessons learned and a few acts regretted.
When: Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, noon–1:15 p.m.
Where: University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 1201 E. Speedway Blvd., Room 168
Who may attend: The lecture is free and open to the public.
Butch Farabee grew up in Tucson and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1965 with a degree in zoology. He was on the Tucson Police Department for three years then worked for 35 years with the National Park Service (NPS), serving in 11 different park areas. He went from trail crew to field ranger and retired in 2000 as the Acting Superintendent of Glacier National Park. He then managed four Texas State Parks.
His notable legal matter is as a defendant in his official capacity in a 1997 Fifth Circuit appellate case (Dunn-McCampbell Royalty Interest, Inc. v. National Park Service; Butch Farabee), which upheld the NPS’s regulatory authority over Padre Island National Seashore. He has published six books on search and rescue and park rangering. He is a graduate of the FBI Academy and has a master’s degree in criminal justice. He is most proud, however, of his two sons and four grandchildren.
About the Peter Chase Neumann Lecture
The Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice is part of University of Arizona Law's Civil Justice Initiative, which seeks to elevate the American civil justice system and train the next generation of great trial lawyers.
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