MARTIN LYBECKER

LYBECKER MARTIN E. LYBECKER Passed away on Saturday, September 2, 2017 as a result of complications from a fall he sustained while in South Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Andrea; two sons, Carl and Neil; a granddaughter, Chloe; and a sister, Jeanne Lybecker. Marty was born to Jeanette and Earl Lybecker, on February 11,1945 in Lincoln Nebraska, where his father was stationed during the war. Shortly after his birth, his mother Jeanette returned to Walla Walla, Washington to live with her parents until Earl could join them. When his father took a job in Seattle, Washington, the family moved and Marty spent his formative years there. He graduated from the University of Washington with a BBA in Business and Accounting and a JD from the University of Washington School of Law. He went on to earn an LLM in Tax from New York University and an LLM in Securities at the University of Pennsylvania. Marty spent the next three years working at the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the office of Cheif Council Division of Investment Management. Marty returned to academia to teach at SUNY at Buffalo School of Law. But in the historic winter of his second year at Buffalo, he got an offer to take a visiting year at the Duke School of Law. He also taught University of North Carolina School of Law, as well. Marty served a second three-year stint at the SEC as Associate Director of the Division of Investment and Management. He joined the the law firm Drinker, Biddle & Reath in their DC offices. After Drinker came Ropes & Grey, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Door, and most recently joining the Seattle based firm of Perkins Coie. While at Ropes & Grey, Marty's passion for teaching was rekindled again withan Duke Law School to teach his popular and always over subscribed class. He spent14 years as an Adjunct Professor in Law and a Senior Lecturing Fellow in Law at Duke Law School and recently at The University of Georgetown Law School. Marty's other passion was baseball. As soon as his boys were old enough, he began teaching them the finer points of pitching, fielding and hitting. As the boys grew, Marty offered his services as scorekeeper for school teams and a special coach for catchers, and went on many of the boys' spring training trips to help out. Marty was a self-taught harmonica player, a merciless backgammon opponent, a lover of British TV Dramas and a voracious reader of mysteries. He was generous to a fault with an abundance of patience, a giver of advice and encouragement, a teacher, a colleague, a husband and a father. Marty will be missed by all those who knew him. A celebration of life for Martin will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, we kindly ask that expressions of sympathy be made in Marty's name to the "Martin E. Lybecker Endowed Scholarship Fund" at the University of Washington Law School. To learn more or to donate, visit https://goo.gl/M2XGtt.In lieu of flowers, we kindly ask that expressions of sympathy be made in Marty's name to the "Martin E. Lybecker Endowed Scholarship Fund" at the University of Washington Law School. To learn more or to donate, visit https://goo.gl/M2XGtt.