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Hugh B. Muir, 81, a professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law from 1968 to 1983, died Thursday, July 25, 2002, after an extended illness. He is survived by his wife, Joy whom he married October 2, 1992, in Santa Fe, NM; his older brother, Jack and wife, Irene of Butte, MT, and his younger brother, Bob and wife, Barbara of Billings, MT; his children from his first and second marriages, John H. Muir of Austin, TX and Leah Muir Hermes of Portland, OR; and his granddaughters, Grace Muir Hermes and Anna Muir Hermes. Hugh was born on November 12, 1920, in Great Falls, MT, to John B. Muir and Mary Wilson Muir, originally of Newmilnes, Scotland. He graduated with honors from the University of Oregon in 1943 where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Scabbard and Blade. In 1944, he married his college sweetheart, Patricia Gray, in Gainseville, FL, while training for military duty in World War II. During the war, Hugh served as a Second Lt. and mine platoon leader in an antitank company attached to the 106th Infantry division. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and held prisoner from Dec. 16, 1944 to April 6, 1945. Upon his return to the U.S., Hugh joined the firm of Stratford, Hanson, and Neely of Portland, OR, as a C.P.A. He then went to the University of Michigan Law School where he was associate editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. After he graduated from law school, Hugh worked in Washington D.C. at the firm of Sutherland, Tuttle, and Brennan before joining the Internal Revenue Service as a special attorney from 1952 to 1955. Hugh, his wife, Patricia, and nine-year old son, John, moved to Dallas, TX in the summer of 1955, where he joined the Carrington and Johnson Law Firm. He was then appointed assistant tax counsel for Texas Instruments, Inc. Hugh and his family were active members of the First Community Church of Dallas. After the loss of his first wife in a car accident in 1965, Hugh subsequently married Grace Weatherall on December 26, 1967 and moved to Albuquerque, NM where he became a professor of law at the University of New Mexico. Hugh and Grace had a daughter, Leah, in 1968, and he enjoyed his years spent teaching at the law school. He retired in 1983 to help care for Grace, who passed away on August 7, 1986, after a long battle with cancer. Hugh often said that he"felt lucky to have had the love of three outstanding women during his life." His final years were spent with his third wife, Joy Wahl Muir. They traveled and enjoyed the happiness of those years and then shared the many months of Hugh's illness. In the spring of 2000, the UNM School of Law honored him by starting the"Hugh Muir Oath Project" where first-year students wrote oaths stating how they intended to conduct themselves as lawyers. As a husband, father, friend, and teacher, he has touched the lives of many. Disposition is by cremation. There will be a private family service during which, as well as in the years to follow, the family will remember and hold dear Hugh's many friends. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc., 1250 Hylan Blvd, Suite 4B, Staten Island, NY, 10305.
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