Stanley E. Tobin

TOBIN , Stanley E.
Of Carnavon Way in Los Angeles died on June 15, 2007 at Sherman Oaks hospital in L.A.
Mr. Tobin was one of four brothers born to Terry and Sylvia Tobin in Boston, Mass. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1948 where he was a star debater and where he began a life long love of politics. He started writing speeches for Governor Dever of Massachusetts and started his own newspaper delivery service while still in high school. Mr. Tobin then went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard College in 1953. After graduation he served in the U.S. Army as a military historian before going on to Yale Law School. He graduated in 1958. He was editor of the Yale Book Review and an editorial board member of the Yale Law Journal and the recipient of the Israel Perez award.
Mr. Tobin was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School and a visiting and guest lecturer. He joined the law firm of Hill Farrer & Burrill in 1959 and retired as a senior law partner in 2003.
Mr. Tobin was a member of the American Bar Association since 1959 and a fellow of the A.B.A. since 1981. He was a member of the California Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar since 1959 and was a consultant to The California Law Commission On Eminent Domain 1959-1960 . He was president of the Harvard Club of Southern California 1996-1997. He was president of the Yale Law School alumni of Southern California 1996-97 and served on the Yale Law school Assoc. Executive commission in 1999. He was president of the Boston Latin School Alumni Assoc. of Western States 1969-70 and was Man Of The Year in 1981 and Outstanding Alumnus 1985.
Mr. Tobin was a speechwriter on the legal staff of many candidates from Governor Dever to President Clinton including Senator Cranston, Senator Muskie and President Carter . A man of keen wit much charm and great intellect he was a passionate observer of the American political process and wrote two books about it, A Journey In Search Of Justice and A Legacy Lost.
Mr. Tobin was married to Ottilie Hecker who died in 1987 and to Erica Vandenberg who died in 2001. He is survived by his beloved daughter Lisa Tobin and her husband Michael Sklarski and granddaughter Leah, his three brothers Alan and Robert of Newton Mass and Mark of Sharon Mass as well as a host of friends and colleagues.
There will be a private graveside service.