RONALD JOSEPH HERRMANN was born December 21st, 1934 in Bexar County, Texas to Albert Herrmann and Helen Luthy. He attended and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in about 1953. From 1952-1961 Herrmann served in the United States Army Reserve from 1952-1961. He married Karen S. Heizer on September 30, 1977.

After graduating from high school he attended St. Mary’s University, and Herrmann received a Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary’s University in 1957. He graduated with his Juris Doctor from the St. Mary’s University Law School in 1959. While at law school, he served as the historian for the Tarleton Inn. Following law school, Mr. Herrmann entered solo practice in San Antonio, where he worked until retiring in 2003.

Herrmann has a long history of service to the St. Mary’s and legal community in Texas, including as a member of St Mary’s University Board of Trustees, founding director of the San Antonio Bar Foundation, member of the San Antonio and Texas Bar, and the Texas Bar Association. He also served as senior vice president of the American Grain Corporation 1962-1966, president and member of the board of directors of Owner FM Inc. since 1969, member of the board of directors for Sun Harvest Farms, Inc., Texas History Society, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and a lifetime member of the Kansas History Society.

In 1978, St. Mary’s University School of Law recognized Herrmann as a distinguished graduate, as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007, and received the St. Mary’s University School of Law Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Currently, Mr. Herrmann practices privately with Columbia Reality LTD.

By: Santos Mencio, St. Mary’s University Law Fellows in Public History (2022) & John Cadena, St. Mary’s University Law Fellows in Public History (2019)

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