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Dean Dinwoodey
Dean Dinwoodey (November 12, 1899 – February 7, 1983) was the first president and chairman of BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.) and a noted intellectual property law scholar. The Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., bears his name.
Dinwoodey was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah. He went to Washington to attend The George Washington University School of Law, and during
that period took a job at the fledgling BNA. BNA was conceived and established by noted newsman David Lawrence (publisher), founder of U.S. News & World Report, to report on the inner workings of Washington.
Dinwoodey was a Latter-day Saint. He served a three-year mission in Germany for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In 1946, when Lawrence wanted to devote his energies to the magazine, he sold BNA to his five top editors. Dean Dinwoodey, together with