The inaugural Law Librarian at the University of Windsor's Faculty of Law, Professor Roger F. Jacobs, sadly passed away on April 17, 2024, at the age of 87.
Professor Jacobs assumed this pioneering role in 1968 and concluded his tenure at the end of the Winter Term in 1973. He then embarked on his next venture as the founding Law Librarian at the University of Southern Illinois, where he served from 1973 to 1977. In 1978, he assumed the position of librarian at the United States Supreme Court.