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WARREN E. BURGER
was born in St. Paul Minnesota, on September 17, 1907.
After pre-legal studies at the University of Minnesota
in high classes, he earned a law degree in 1931 from the
St. Paul College of Law (now William Mitchell College
of Law) by attending four years of night classes while
working in the accounting department of a life insurance
company. He was appointed to the faculty of his law school
upon graduation and remained on the adjunct faculty until
1946. Burger practiced with a St. Paul law firm from 1931
to 1953. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
Burger Assistant Attorney General of the United States,
Chief of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice.
In 1955, President Eisenhower appointed him to the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,
where he served until 1969. President Richard M. Nixon
nominated Burger Chief Justice of the United States on
May 22, 1969. The Senate confirmed the appointment on
June 9, 1969, and he took office on June 23, 1969. In
July 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed burger Chairman
of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States
Constitution. As Chief Justice he served as Chairman of
the Judicial Conference of the United States and as Chairman
of the Federal Judicial Center from 1969 to 1986. Burger
retired from the Court on September 26, 1986, after seventeen
years of service, and continued to direct the Commission
on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution
from 1986 to 1992. |
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