D.C. Toedt

Dell C. "D.C." Toedt III (the last name is pronounced "Tate") is a practicing attorney, a member of the Texas and California bars, and a professor of practice at the University of Houston Law Center.

Toedt was formerly a partner and an elected member of the management committee at Arnold, White & Durkee, one of the nation's largest intellectual-property litigation boutique law firms, with 150 lawyers in six offices. During the dot-com boom he went in-house as vice president and general counsel of BindView Corporation, a publicly-traded software company based in Houston — as outside counsel, he had helped the founders to start the company — serving there until the company's exit when it was acquired by Symantec Corporation.

In between college at UT Austin (math and physics, graduating with high honors) and law school (also UT; law review), Toedt served his ROTC scholarship payback time as a U.S. Navy nuclear engineering officer, including three years of sea duty in the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.