OFFICERS

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Honorary Chairman

Robert T. Stevens, Chairman

Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, President

William F. Swindler, Editor

Jeffrey B. Morris, Associate Editor

Kathleen Shurtleff, Editorial Assistant

INTRODUCTION

This, our fifth edition of the Yearbook promises to equal if not outdo the four previous volumes, it is a rare collection of scholarly pieces dealing with issues that have confronted the Supreme Court throughout its 200 year history, and illustrates outstanding personalities who sat on the High Court Bench.

I am happy to inform you that during the past year contracts with the American Society of Legal Historians, Organization of American Historians and the American Association of Law Libraries have introduced a new spirit of cooperation with these# important organizations. At the same time, our continuing research project, "The Documentary History of the Supreme Court 1790–1800," is progressing well and promises to be a major contribution to legal history.

May I take this opportunity to ask you, our members, to urge your friends to join the Society, and thus promote by their support the important programs initiated by the Society.

EHG

President

The Supreme Court Historical Society - BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chief Justice Warren E. BurgerHonorary Chairman

Robert T. Stevens, Chairman

Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, President

Vice-Presidents - Linwood Holton, Whitney North Seymour, Earl W. Kintner, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., William P. Rogers

Mrs. Hugo L. Black, Secretary

Vincent C. Burke, Jr., Treasurer

Mrs. David Acheson , Richard A. Moore, Ralph E. Becker, David A. Morse, James J. Bierbower, Alice L. O'Donnell, Herbert Brownell, Melvin M. Payne, Gwendolyn D. Cafritz, Merlo J. Pusey, William T. Coleman, Jr., Harvey T. Reid, Charles T. Duncan, Fred Schwengel, Patricia Collins Dwinnell, Bernard G. Segal, Newell W. Ellison, Margaret Chase Smith, Paul A. Freund, Lauson Stone, Erwin N. Griswold, William F. Swindler, Lita Annenberg Hazen, Obert C. Tanner, Joseph H. Hennage , Hobart Taylor, Jr., Francis R. Kirkham, Mrs. Earl Warren, David Lloyd Kreeger, J. Albert Woll, Sol M. Linowitz

Betty Crites Dillon, Executive Director

Publication of the 1980 Yearbook was made possible through a grant from the Charles Evans Hughes Foundation. The Society extends its thanks to the Foundation for its generous support of the project.