# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-sturtevant-ruder
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:26:08.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-sturtevant-ruder"
name: "David Sturtevant Ruder"
slug: "david-sturtevant-ruder"
description: "David Sturtevant Ruder was the William W. Gurley Memorial Professor of Law Emeritus at Northwestern University School of Law, where he served on the faculty since 1961, and where he served as dean from 1977 to 1985. He served as chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1987 to 1989, and later practiced with the Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie. He served as chairman of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum, an organization providing education to independent directors of mutual funds, from 2002 to 2010 and was the organization's chairman emeritus."
tagline: "American lawyer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-05-25"
deathDate: "2020-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           6.138445333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Sturtevant Ruder"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sturtevant_Ruder"
    title: "David Sturtevant Ruder"
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    title: "David Sturtevant Ruder"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sturtevant_Ruder"
    title: "David Sturtevant Ruder"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump