Howard Copeland
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Howard Edgar Copeland (January 23, 1944 – April 11, 2019) was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia.
Howard Copeland was raised in Norfolk, Virginia. His parents were Hubert Edgar Copeland and Helen Copeland. He attended Columbia University, graduating in 1967, and officer candidate school at the Coast Guard Reserve Training Center in Yorktown, Virginia. During his four years of active military service with the United States Coast Guard, Copeland was a combat information officer aboard the USCGC Androscoggin. Copeland remained a Coast Guard reservist for 22 years, retiring with the rank of captain. While serving in the military, Copeland attended the Naval War College and National Defense University, as well as the University of Virginia School of Law, where he completed a Juris Doctor in 1973.[1][2]