38 Facts About Justice Powell

Justice Powell retired from the Court during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, and was eventually succeeded by Anthony Kennedy.

Justice Powell notably joined the majority in cases such as United States v Nixon, Roe v Wade, Plyler v Doe, and Bowers v Hardwick.

Justice Powell was born in Suffolk, Virginia, the son of Mary Lewis and Louis Franklin Justice Powell.

Justice Powell set out to attend Washington and Lee University where he became president of his fraternity, managing editor of the student newspaper, and a member of the yearbook staff.

Justice Powell had always planned on becoming a lawyer because he viewed their roles as shaping history.

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Justice Powell was named recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for "generous service to others".

Justice Powell then attended Washington and Lee University School of Law and in 1931 graduated first in his class.

Justice Powell received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1932, wrote a LL.

Justice Powell was elected president of the student body as an undergraduate with the help of Mosby Perrow Jr.

Justice Powell was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Sigma Society.

Justice Powell was assigned to the 319th Bombardment Group, which moved to England later that year.

Justice Powell served in North Africa during Operation Torch and was later assigned to the Headquarters of the Northwest African Air Forces.

Justice Powell was then assigned to the Intelligence staff of the Department of War and then the Intelligence staff of United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe.

Justice Powell was assigned to the Ultra project, as one of the officers designated to monitor the use of intercepted Axis communications.

Justice Powell worked in England and in the Mediterranean Theater and ensured that the use of Ultra information was in compliance with the laws of war, and that the use of such information did not reveal the source, which would have alerted that the code had been broken.

In 1941, Justice Powell served as Chairman of the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division.

Justice Powell was a partner for more than a quarter of a century at Hunton, Williams, Gay, Justice Powell and Gibson, a large Virginia law firm, with its primary office in Richmond, now known as Hunton Andrews Kurth.

Justice Powell practiced primarily in the areas of corporate law, especially in the fields of mergers and acquisitions and railroad litigation.

From 1961 to 1962 Justice Powell served as Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Economics of Law Practice, which later evolved into the ABA Law Practice Division.

Justice Powell led the way in attempting to provide legal services to the poor, and he made a key decision to cooperate with the federal government's Legal Services Program.

Justice Powell was involved in the development of Colonial Williamsburg, where he was both a trustee and general counsel.

Powell's law firm, although not Powell himself, represented one of the defendant school districts in Davis v County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was consolidated later into Brown.

In 1990, Justice Powell swore in Virginia's first black governor, Douglas Wilder.

From 1961 to 1969, Justice Powell served on the Virginia Board of Education; he was Chairman from 1968 to 1969.

Justice Powell saw it as an undermining of the power of private business and a step toward socialism.

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Justice Powell argued, unsuccessfully, that tobacco companies' First Amendment rights were being infringed when news organizations were not giving credence to the cancer denials of the industry.

Justice Powell named consumer advocate Nader as the chief antagonist of American business.

Justice Powell urged conservatives to undertake a sustained media-outreach program, including funding neoliberal scholars, publishing books, papers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals, and influencing public opinion.

Anderson alleged that Justice Powell was trying to undermine the democratic system; however, in terms of business's view of itself in relation to government and public interest groups, the memo could be alternatively read to simply convey conventional thinking among businessmen at the time.

One of the primary concerns that Justice Powell had was the effect leaving his law firm and joining the high court would have on his personal financial status, as he enjoyed a very lucrative private practice at his law firm.

Justice Powell feared that would place him at a disadvantage and make it unlikely that he would be able to influence his colleagues.

Lewis Justice Powell served from January 7,1972 until June 26,1987, when he retired from the Court.

Justice Powell's opinion striking down the law urged "strict scrutiny" to be applied to affirmative action programs but hinted that some affirmative action programs might pass Constitutional muster.

Snepp later pointed out that Powell had misstated the factual record and had not reviewed the actual case file and that the only justice who even looked at the case file was John Paul Stevens, who relied upon it in composing his dissent.

From his days in counterintelligence during World War II, Powell believed in the need for government secrecy and urged the same position on his colleagues during the Court's consideration of 1974's United States v Nixon.

Scholars would later conclude that Powell unknowingly hired more gay clerks than any other Justice.

Justice Powell died at his home in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond, Virginia, of pneumonia, at 4:30 in the morning of August 25,1998, at the age of 90.

Harvie Wilkinson, a judge on the Fourth Circuit, and former law clerk for Justice Powell, wrote a book titled Serving Justice: A Supreme Court Clerk's View describing the experience.