David Hackett Souter
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
David Hackett Souter 1939-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990-), b. Melrose, Mass. A graduate of the Harvard Law School, he served as New Hampshire's attorney general (1976-78), and on the state's superior court (1978-83) before being named to the New Hampshire Supreme Court (1983-90). After serving only a short time as a judge on the federal First Circuit Court of Appeals (1990), he was named by President George H. W. Bush in July, 1990, to the U.S. Supreme Court, replacing William Brennan . Although regarded initially as a conservative, Souter emerged by the mid-1990s as key to a moderate bloc that resisted pressures from the political right to undo Court precedents of the 1960s and 70s.
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