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Clarence Thomas '71, associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court, will deliver the annual Hanify-Howland Lecture
on April 8. The title of the lecture is "Judging and
the Court."
Thomas was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia in
1948. A graduate of Yale Law School, he served as assistant
attorney general of Missouri from 1974-1977. After working
as a legislative assistant to Sen. John Danforth, Thomas
served as assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S.
Department of Education and as chairman of the U.S. Equal
Opportunity Commission. On July 1, 1991, President Bush nominated
Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate
confirmed his appointment on Oct. 15, 1991.
In addition to his lecture, Thomas will attend two seminars,
during which students will discuss readings from A Man
for All Seasons by Robert Bolt and The Tempting of
America by Robert Bork.
The Hanify-Howland Lecture Series honors the late Edward
F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate who served 15 years as a Massachusetts
Superior Court justice. Hanify died in 1954. The series was
begun by his friend, the late Weston Howland.
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