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Clarence Thomas ’71, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, delivered
the annual Hanify-Howland Memorial lecture at Holy Cross
on April 8 in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center. Justice
Thomas’ talk was titled, “Judging and the Court.”
Thomas has served on the nation’s highest court since
October 1991. Prior to that he served for one year as a judge
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit. From 1981-1982, he had been assistant secretary
for civil rights at the Department of Education, and from
1982-1990, as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission.
Following his graduation from Holy Cross, Thomas earned
a law degree from Yale Law School in 1974. From 1974-1977,
he held the position of assistant attorney general in Missouri.
He then went to work for the Monsanto Company from 1977-1979,
and later worked for two years for then-Sen. John Danforth.
The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward
F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts
Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The
series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston
Howland of Milton, Mass., a board chairman of Warwick Mills,
Inc., who died in 1976. |
