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Previously, Opperman was the CEO of West Publishing Company (acquired in 1996 by Thomson Corporation [3]) in St. Paul, Minnesota and while he was CEO the company moved into technology products with the creation of the Westlaw legal database. Opperman was born in Perry, Iowa, and "grew up poor". [4] He received his law degree from Drake ...
Born into modest circumstances in Perry, Iowa, Dwight was a child of the Great Depression. His son Vance Opperman, recalled his father describing his life as a boy, saying that Dwight remembered walking the rail lines searching for stray coal to heat the family home.
Dwight Darwin Opperman (June 26, 1923 – June 13, 2013) was an American businessman and lawyer. He was chairman of Key Investments, a privately held venture capital firm focusing on high-tech ventures.
Jun 14, 2013 · Born in Perry, Iowa, Dwight Opperman was a son of the Depression. Vance Opperman recalled his father describing his life as a boy, walking the rail lines searching for stray coal the family could...
- Jennifer Bjorhus
Jul 17, 2009 · He did that sculpture [on a wall in Opperman’s office] when he was 16 years old. After he became chief justice, the Franklin Mint wanted to cast it and sell it, which they did. And that plush red thing [in Opperman’s office], that’s a carpet from the Supreme Court chambers.
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Jun 14, 2013 · Dwight Opperman, a Drake University law graduate who rose to the top job at West Publishing after starting work there as an editor and was a key figure in the company’s development of the...
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Jul 17, 2009 · Dwight Opperman was born in Perry, Iowa, about 40 miles from Des Moines and Drake University, where he got his J.D. in 1951.
