Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1

John R. Vile

ABC-CLIO, 2003 - Law - 981 pages

Judge Roy Bean's courtroom was a saloon. Judge Learned Hand defended free speech. Judge John J. Sirica presided over Watergate. Judge Joseph Story freed the Amistad captives. Judge Sarah T. Hughes reformed juvenile justice in Dallas. From all levels of the justice system come judges whose public service has impacted American lives and laws. Great American Judges profiles 100 outstanding judges and justices in a full sweep of U.S. history. Chosen by lawyers, historians, and political scientists, these men and women laid the foundation of U.S. law. Following an introduction on the role of judges in American history are A-Z biographical entries portraying this diverse group from extraordinarily different backgrounds. William Rehnquist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and 12 other Supreme Court justices are found alongside federal judges like Skelly Wright who ordered school desegregation in 1960. Influential state judges such as Rose Elizabeth Bird, California's first woman Supreme Court Chief Justice, are also featured.

Contents

• Foreword: xvii
• Introduction: xxi
• Special Acknowledgments: xlv
• Abrahamson Shirley Schlanger: 1
• Allen Florence Ellinwood: 8
• Ames Samuel: 20
• Amidon Charles Fremont: 25
• Appleton John: 32
• Bazelon David L: 39
• Bean Roy: 46
• Bell Griffin: 55
• Bird Rose Elizabeth: 66
• Black Hugo Lafayette: 75
• Blackford Isaac: 84
• Bohanon Luther Lee: 93
• Bond Hugh Lennox: 102
• Bork Robert H: 111
• Brandeis Louis Dembitz: 121
• Brown John R: 131
• Burger Warren: 141
• Cardozo Benjamin N: 153
• Clark Walter: 161
• Comstock George Franklin: 168
• Cooley Thomas McIntyre: 175
• Cranch William: 182
• Davis John: 191
• Deady Matthew Paul: 196
• Doe Charles Cogswell: 205
• Drummond Thomas: 212
• Easterbrook Frank Hoover: 221
• Edgerton Henry White: 229
• Enslen Richard Alan: 239
• Field Stephen J: 247
• Frank Jerome New: 257
• Frankfurter Felix: 264
• Friendly Henry Jacob: 273
• Gibson John Bannister: 287
• Gray Horace: 296
• Green Nathan Sr: 304
• Hand Augustus Noble: 311
• Hand Learned: 319
• Harlan John Marshall: 330
• Harlan John Marshall II: 338
• Harper William: 345
• Hastie William Henry: 351
• Haynsworth Clement Furman Jr: 361
• Hemphill John: 370
• Higginbotham A Leon Jr: 377
• Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr: 383
• Horton James E Jr: 391
• Hughes Charles Evans: 400
• Hughes Sarah Tilghman: 407
• Johnson Frank M Jr: 415
• Justice William Wayne: 424
• Kent James: 433
• Kozinski Alex: 442
• Landis Kenesaw Mountain: 449
• Leventhal Harold: 457
• Linde Hans A: 463
• Livingston Robert R Jr: 471
• Lumpkin Joseph Henry: 479
• Marshall John: 487
• Marshall Thomas Alexander: 497
• Martin FrançoisXavier: 502
• McGowan Carl Eugene: 511
• Medina Harold R: 519
• Mikva Abner J: 530
• Mitchell William: 537
• Morris Lewis: 547
• Motley Constance Baker: 556
• Murrah Alfred P: 563
• Parker Isaac C: 571
• Parker John Johnson: 583
• Parsons Theophilus: 596
• Pendleton Edmund: 602
• Pollack Milton: 607
• Posner Richard A: 615
• Pound Cuthbert Winfred: 629
• Rehnquist William H: 639
• Rives Richard: 649
• Roane Spencer: 655
• Ruffin Thomas: 662
• Ryan Edward George: 668
• Schaefer Walter Vincent: 677
• Seabury Samuel: 683
• Sewall Samuel: 689
• Sharswood George: 696
• Shaw Lemuel: 704
• Sirica John Joseph: 712
• Stone George Washington: 720
• Stone Harlan Fiske: 726
• Story Joseph: 733
• Taney Roger Brooke: 741
• Traynor Roger John: 753
• Tucker St George: 760
• Tuttle Elbert Parr: 768
• Vanderbilt Arthur T: 775
• Waring J Waties: 783
• Warren Earl: 790
• Weinstein Jack B: 800
• Wilkinson J Harvie III: 807
• Wisdom John Minor: 814
• Wright James Skelly: 821
• Wright Jonathan Jasper: 828
• Wythe George: 835
• Wyzanski Charles E Jr: 841
• Appendix A: 851
• Appendix B: 853
• Appendix C: 855
• Appendix D: 867
• How Well Do You Know Your Great American Judges?: 875
• Selected Bibliography: 887
• About the Editor Contributors: 919
• Index: 927

Popular passages

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About the author

John R. Vile is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. He is the editor of ABC-CLIO's Great American Lawyers and author of The Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the award-winning Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1; Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia, John R. Vile
• Editor: John R. Vile
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2003
• ISBN: 1576079899, 9781576079898
• Length: 981 pages
• Subjects: Law / Legal History; Reference / General