Born in
Ventura, California, Reppy was one of the first graduates of
Beverly Hills High School and went on to earn his
Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1934 from
Stanford University, where he was a member of the
track and field team and
Chi Psi fraternity. He earned his
LL.B. in 1937 from
USC Law School, where he served as editor of the
USC Law Review and was also inducted into the
Order of the Coif honor society. After graduating from USC, Reppy worked as an
attorney in
private practice in
Oxnard, California. Upon returning to California after serving in the
United States Army during World War II, Reppy served as Assistant City Attorney and then
City Attorney of Oxnard from 1946 to 1953. In 1955,
Republican governor
Goodwin Knight appointed Reppy to serve as a
Judge of the
Ventura County Superior Court, where he was the first judge of the Court's Oxnard branch. Reppy left the Superior Court on December 4, 1968, when Governor
Ronald Reagan appointed him to serve as an
Associate Justice of the
California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Five. Retiring from the Court of Appeal in 1972, Reppy served on the
board of visitors for
Stanford Law School and as President of the Friends of the Montecito Library. A resident of the
Santa Barbara suburb of
Montecito, Reppy died on
New Year's Day 2005 of
congestive heart failure at the age of 92. He was married for 65 years to fellow Stanford graduate Margot Brownrigg, with whom he had two sons: William, Jr. and Michael, who are also both Stanford
alumni. ==References==