In memory of the services provided to Stanford Law School and the Stanford Law Review, we dedicate the first issue of Volume 68 to the memory of J. Paul Lomio, an extraordinary director of the Stanford Law School library and an irreplaceable member of the Stanford community.

J. Paul Lomio was born in 1950 in Schenectady, New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from St. Bonaventure University in 1972 before serving in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader until 1975 at Nike Hercules batteries in Fort Story, Virginia and Camp Holiday, South Korea. He went on to earn a law degree from Gonzaga University in 1978 and a master’s degree in law from the University of Washington School of Law in 1979. He was admitted to the Washington State Bar Association in 1978 and served as a guardian-ad-litem for the King County Juvenile Court. He then clerked for Judge T. Patrick Corbett of the King County Superior Court in Seattle in 1980 and went on to earn a master’s degree in library science in 1982 from the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America.

Lomio joined the law school staff as a reference librarian in 1982, and in 2005, then-Dean Larry Kramer named him director of the library. Over the course of a career spanning more than three decades, he became a specialist in legal research and the development of digital reserves—and much more.

The following tributes were given during Paul Lomio’s memorial on May 12, 2015.