Position: Member

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Website: www.williamsandconnolly.com

Admitted: 1964, District of Columbia; 1968, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: Harvard University (LL.B., magna cum laude, 1963 )

College: University of Wisconsin (B.A., 1959); Universite d'Aix-Marseille, France (F

Birth Date and Place: June 18, 1938, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Practice Areas: Civil Litigation - Products Liability Defense

Additional Information:  Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi. Member, 1961-1963 and President, 1962-1963, Harvard Law Review. Author: "Soldiers Who Insult the President," Harvard Law Review, June 1968; "Constitutional Restrictions on Political Parties," Virginia Law Review, May, 1974; "The Law Clerk Explosion," Litigation, Spring, 1983; "The Future of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," AEI Foreign Policy and Defense Review, March 1980; "Do We Need the Service Secretary?" Washington Quarterly, Winter, 1981; "Designing a U.S. Defense General Staff," Strategic Review, Summer, 1981; "Some Myths of U.S. Extradition Law," Georgetown Law Journal, April 1988; "State Governors and the Federal National Guard," Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, winter 1988. Visiting Lecturer in Law, Duke University, 1968; Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan, 1968-1969. Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Black, U.S. Supreme Court, 1963-1965. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1969-1972. The Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1977-1978. Awarded Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service, Department of the Army, 1971; Department of Defense Medal For Distinguished Public Service, 1979. Member: Board of Visitors, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1979-1981; Chemical Warfare Review Commission, 1985; Academic Advisory Board, U.S. Naval Academy, 1978-1982; Council on Foreign Relations, 1977- ; Board of Zoning Appeals, Alexandria, Virginia, 1975-1977; Regional Selection Panel for White House Fellows, 1985-1990; Advisory Committee of Nancy Reagan Drug Abuse Fund, 1986-1990; Program Committee, Supreme Court Historical Society, 1988-1991; Board of Directors, Historical Society of The District of Columbia Circuit, 1990- . Vice Chairman, Defense Science Board Task Force on MX Missile Environmental Impact, 1980-1982. Contributing Editor, Washingtonian Magazine, 1980- ; Military Logistics Forum, 1984-1988. Member, Army Science Board, 1995-1998. Fellow, American Bar Foundation. [Capt., JAGC, U.S. Army, 1965-1968] MEMBER: The District of Columbia Bar (Member, Legal Ethics Committee, 1982-1988); American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Criminal Law; International Law); American Society of International Law. �

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