Edward J. Sheppard IV ’63

Ed died Dec. 24, 2017, of heart failure. He was a Washington attorney who specialized in maritime law.

Raised in Europe, where his father was chief administrator at the Nuremberg trials after World War II, Ed went to high school in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Fluent in French and German, he majored in history at Princeton, rowed on the freshman crew, and was business manager of Triangle. He belonged to Orange Key, Semper Fi Society, and Tower Club. His senior-year roommates were Mike Campbell and Mike Farmer.

Upon graduation, Ed went to Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Va., and became an officer in the Marines. He rose to captain and later entered the Foreign Service and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. He was an associate with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and then established his own firm — Schmeltzer, Aptaker and Sheppard — and later was a partner at two firms. After a serious stroke in 1998, he continued to practice law for many years despite limited movement on his left side.

He is survived by his first wife, Katharine Wyatt Rogers; a son, Edward James Rogers ’87 of Tokyo; a daughter, Elizabeth Kelley Sheppard of Paris; a sister, Susan Sheppard of Delaware; and four grandchildren in Tokyo.