Bayless Andrew Manning (March 29, 1923 – September 18, 2011) was an American lawyer, law professor, writer and expert of corporate law.^[1] He served as the dean of Stanford Law School from 1964 to 1971.^[2] He left Stanford in 1971 and became the first president of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[1][3]

Manning worked as the editor of the Yale Law Journal as a law student before graduating from Yale Law School as valedictorian of the class of 1949.^[1] He then clerked for Justice Stanley Forman Reed, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.^[2]

Manning taught as a professor at Yale University from 1955 to 1964.^[1] He simultaneously served as a member of the President's Advisory Panel on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest in Government beginning in 1960.^[1] Manning became the dean of Stanford Law School from 1964 to 1971.^[1] In 1971, Cyrus R. Vance and David Rockefeller soon appointed Manning as the first president of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).^[1][3] Following the end of his tenure at CFR, Manning joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a law firm based in New York City.^[1]

In 2001, Manning was awarded the Certificate of Meritorious Achievement from the United States Office of Government Ethics for the Executive Branch.^[1]

Manning moved to Boise, Idaho, in the late 1980s.^[1] He died at his home in Boise on September 18, 2011, at the age of 88.^[2] He was survived by his wife, Alexandra Zekovic, five children, and six grandchildren.^[2]

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