Darrell L. Heckman was born March 7, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Upper Arlington High School where he was Student Council President in 1967. He attended the University of Oklahoma for one year and then transferred to The Ohio State University.

At OSU Mr. Heckman was an active member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity and a member of the Undergraduate Student Government as a Senator. During his senior year he traveled to the Soviet Union and graduated in 1971.

Mr. Heckman joined the United States Army Reserve in 1971 and was on active duty for four months at the end of that year and remained in the Reserves for six years, achieving the rank of Specialist, 4th Class.

Mr. Heckman enrolled at the University of Toledo College of Law in the fall of 1972, attended year-round, and graduated in December, 1974. He took and passed the February 1975 Ohio State Bar Examination and was sworn in as a lawyer.

Mr. Heckman married the former Nancy Keyser, an Urbana schoolteacher, on July 29, 1978. The Heckman’s have three children: Lee, 31, who is a lawyer in Newark, Ohio; Benjamin, 27, a dentist in Pineville, Kentucky; and Julie, 26, a Spanish teacher in Bluffton, Ohio.

Mr. Heckman’s interests include reading, history, and politics.

Mr. Heckman has served the public in the following organizations: