E. Pierce Marshall
Howard Marshall II.
According to a Dallas Morning News article, he was a very private man, but became known due to defending the long-running legal dispute from his father's third wife, Anna Nicole Smith.
Marshall attended Millersburg Military Institute, Culver Military Academy, Webb School and received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in 1961. He began his career at General Motors as an engine test engineer, followed by a brief tour with the United States Navy.
After leaving the Navy, Marshall worked for the New York investment banking firm of Loeb Rhodes. He used this experience later when he entered the securities brokerage business in the 1980s.
Beginning in 1969, Marshall moved to Houston, Texas to manage various investment projects with his father, including various roles at Koch Industries, International Oil & Gas and Marshall Petroleum.
While continuing to work with his father he also worked with his father-in-law. In 1981, after his father-in-law's passing, he was elected Chairman of the Electron Corporation (an iron foundry concern).
Later, he was appointed President of Electron and led the company through a successful turnaround, saving over 300 jobs in Colorado and Oklahoma. When his father's health began to deteriorate in 1993, he ceased his securities brokerage business, delegated his responsibilities at Electron and assumed operational responsibilities at Marshall Petroleum.
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In 2001, a jury in Texas upheld the estate and rejected all claims against him. However, Smith's legal dispute with Pierce in federal court yielded decisions both for him and against him. On June 25, 2009 the same three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on the remaining appellate issues in the case and submitted the case for consideration and final adjudication.
In 2005, Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $1.7 billion, a valuation he rejected. Marshall was one of four voting shareholders of Koch Industries when he died of a brief but aggressive infection on June 20, 2006, aged 67.
He is survived by his widow, Elaine Marshall, who now represents his estate.
In a February 9, 2007 interview with Fox News Channel's John Gibson, Rusty Hardin, the family's attorney, said that the family would wait until Smith's immediate affairs in the wake of her sudden death are disclosed before discussing the status of litigation.
A motorsports enthusiast, Marshall competed in the last running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, better known as the Cannonball Run, in April, 1979. Teamed with SCCA racers Dave Faust and Kirby Goodman, Marshall drove a Chevrolet Malibu with the 9C1 Police Patrol Package and a 350 cubic inch LT-1 Z-28 Chevrolet Camaro engine, finishing 13th in a field of 47 competitors, completing the run from Darien, Connecticut to Redondo Beach, California in 36 hours, 51 minutes.