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Vol. 25:3 ISSN 0160-8460 Fall 1997
NHPRC Welcomes Justice Souter
At its November 18 meeting, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission was pleased to welcome Associate Justice David Hackett Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States as the Court's representative on the Commission. Justice Souter succeeds Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun in that capacity.
Justice Souter was named to the Supreme Court in 1990, prior to which he served as Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, and was a Rhodes Scholar. After a brief career in private practice, he became Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire in 1968, Deputy Attorney General in 1971, and Attorney General in 1976. His judicial service began in 1978 as Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court, from which he moved to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1983. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former vice president of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Justice David H. Souter Photo by Joseph H. Bailey, National Geographic Society, courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United States.
