David Schuman was a graduate of Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Oregon Law School. He served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Hans Linde of the Oregon Supreme Court. He joined the University of Oregon Law faculty in 1987 but left to serve as Oregon's Deputy Attorney General. After a brief return to teaching in 2001, he was appointed to serve on the Oregon Court of Appeals. He retired from the bench in 2014 and returned to teaching until his death in 2019.
Sharon J. Schuman earned degrees in English from Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the University of Chicago. She taught literature at Deep Springs College, Willamette University, and the University of Oregon. Author of Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World, she gives presentations and workshops about cultivating dialogic freedom to reduce polarization. She and David were married for 51 years.
