FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 7, 1999
CONTACT: Brian Logue (540) 463-8955 [email protected]
CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST TO SPEAK AT W&L LAW COMMENCEMENT MAY 16
William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will deliver the address at the Washington and Lee University School of Law commencement on Sunday, May 16.
The ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Lee House, the presidentÃs residence, on the W&L campus. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Warner Center. Washington and Lee expects to award juris doctor degrees to 118 third-year students in the universityÃs 144th graduating law class.
Chief Justice Rehnquist served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1972 to 1986 and has served as chief justice since 1986. A law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson during October Term 1952, Chief Justice Rehnquist later engaged in the private practice of law in Phoenix before being appointed by President Nixon to serve as assistant attorney general, office of legal counsel, in 1969.
Chief Justice Rehnquist earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University in 1948, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1950 and a LL.B. from Stanford in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946.
This is Chief Justice RehnquistÃs second official visit to the W&L campus in recent years. He delivered the keynote address at the dedication of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives at the Law School in the spring of 1992.
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