Ira Michael Heyman

Ira Michael Heyman (May 30, 1930 – November 19, 2011) was an American lawyer. He was a professor of law and of city and regional planning, and was Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Life Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City.

He returned to teaching law after leaving the Chancellorship. He was Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, from 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 2000. He served as a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1982 until 1992 and as the chair of the Board of Trustees for the last two years of his tenure. During his Berkeley years he became a member of the Bohemian Club, at which his closest associates included Caspar Weinberger, who was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense.

After having smoked a few packages of cigarettes a day for many years, he died of emphysema in 2011.

Works Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Conduct (1964) Women Students at Berkeley, views and data on possible sex discrimination in academic programs (1977) Concern for the individual; the community YWCA and other Berkeley organizations (1978) The Nobel Tradition at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley (1984) The Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999:oral history transcript (2012)