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We are saddened to share that Ted Schneyer, Milton O. Riepe Professor Emeritus, died June 25, 2026.
Professor Schneyer was a scholar and leader on ethics and professional responsibility, writing and speaking extensively on the subject and serving on ethics boards and task forces in Arizona and beyond.
Professor Schneyer, who grew up in Philadelphia, earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Law School, the University of Stockholm and Stanford Law School. He joined the Arizona Law faculty in 1986 and was a beloved professor over the decades since then.
According to his family, “Ted and his wife Kathy, who worked for many years as an attorney for the University of Arizona, prized the camaraderie they had with U of A faculty, staff and students alike, and threw many a family dinner party at their Tucson home with U of A colleagues and friends, inevitably featuring impromptu guitar-playing and music-making (another of their shared passions).”
In recent years, the Schneyers moved to a retirement/assisted living community in the Bay Area in California, where they were close to family, including two of their grandkids and their daughter Rachel, an acupuncturist and integrative medicine specialist. He slowed down considerably due to Parkinson’s disease, but never missed a Phillies game on TV. He is survived by Kathy, Rachel and son Josh, a journalist in New York, along with three grandchildren.
“Ted was a brilliant and rigorous scholar in legal ethics, particularly in the field of professional regulation. He explored throughout his career what it meant, or should mean, to be a lawyer, and his writings will remain a guidepost for the future,” recalls Mary Anne Richey Professor Emerita of Law Barbara Atwood, who began teaching at Arizona Law the same year as Professor Schneyer. “On a personal level, Ted was honest, inquisitive, funny and disarming, and I remember many intense conversations with him about law and the vicissitudes of life.”
His son Josh says, “Ted absolutely loved the law school, and missed it deeply after moving away from Arizona in recent years.” The family welcomes memorial gifts to The Arc, which advocates for and supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Those who wish to honor Professor Schneyer’s memory through the James E. Rogers College of Law may also make a gift to support Arizona Law student scholarships.
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