The Supreme Court Historical Society

OFFICERS

Honorary Chairman - Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

Chairman - Fred Vinson

President - Linwood Holton

Editor - William F Swindler

Associate Editor - Jeffrey B. Morris

Assistant Editors - David T. Pride, Kathleen Shurtleff

CONTRIBUTORS

Paul R. Baier was a Judicial Fellow in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1975-1976, and is an Associate Professor of Law at Louisiana State University

Michal R. Belknap is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia.

Elizabeth S. Black, a former Secretary and current Trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society, was married to Justice Hugo L. Black from 1957 until his death in 1971.

Amelia Roberts Fry was the director of the Earl Warren Oral History Project at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, from 1969 to 1981.

Barrett McGurn, who served many years as a foreign bureau chief for the New York Herald-Tribune, is currently the Public Information Officer of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Jeffrey Morris is the Associate Editor of the SCHS Yearbook and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Margaret H. Potts is a former Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Lewis F Powell, Jr. is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Merlo J. Pusey, a former editorial writer for the Washington Post, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Charles Evans Hughes.

Sally Jo Vasicko chairs the Department of Political Science at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at that institution.

Earl Warren, Jr., son of the former Chief Justice, is a judge in the Municipal Court in Sacramento, California.

The Supreme Court Historical Society - BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Honorary Chairman - Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

Chairman - Fred M. Vinson, Jr.

President - Linwood Holton

Vice Presidents - Frank Gilbert, Kenneth Rush, David Lloyd Kreeger, Alice L. O'Donnell

Secretary - Virginia Warren Daly

Treasurer - Peter A. Knowles

Trustees - Mrs. David Acheson, Earl W. Kintner, Ralph E. Becker, Francis R. Kirkham, Griffin B. Bell, Sol M. Linowitz, James J. Bierbower, William Barnabas McHenry, Mrs. Hugo L. Black, Richard A. Moore, Herbert Brownell , David A. Morse, Vincent C. Burke, Jr., Melvin M. Payne, Gwendolyn Cafritz, Merlo J. Pusey, William T. Coleman, Jr., Harvey T. Reid, Charles T. Duncan, William P. Rogers, Patricia Collins Dwinnell, Fred Schwengel, Paul A. Freund, Bernard G. Segal, Erwin N. Griswold, William F. Swindler, Lita Annenberg Hazen , Obert C. Tanner, Joseph H. Hennage, J. Albert Woll, Bruce E. Kiernat, Gary J. Aichele - Executive Director

In Memoriam

ELIZABETH HUGHES GOSSETT

1907-1981

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, a founding member of the Society, its first President, and later, a Chairman of its Board of Trustees. Her article on Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes published in the 1976 Yearbook revealed not only her deep love and respect for her distinguished father, but also her reverence for the Supreme Court and a keen understanding of its place in American life and history Her special qualities of intellect, wisdom, and quiet yet irresistible leadership; her example of caring, of grace, and humanity, all combined to render her a dominant force for good and a noble inspiration for everyone whose life she touched.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Officers and Trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society would like to thank the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation for their generous support of the publication of this Yearbook.