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With four years of trial court experience, Souter was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1983. [11] Shortly after George H. W. Bush was sworn in as President, he nominated Souter for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Sep 13, 2024 · In 1983 Governor John Sununu appointed him to the state Supreme Court. As a judge, Souter was considered tough on crime, favouring prosecutors and resisting reversals of criminal convictions. In February 1990 President George Bush nominated Souter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
In 1978, he was named an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire as an Associate Justice in 1983. He became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on May 25, 1990.
Justice David Souter joined the U.S. Supreme Court on October 9, 1990, replacing Justice William Brennan. Souter was born on September 17, 1939 in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. However, he grew up in New Hampshire and attended high school there. Souter then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1961, majoring in philosophy.
Jul 9, 2018 · When Souter was nominated in 1990 to replace the retiring William Brennan, conservatives had built up a lengthening set of grievances about the Supreme Court nominees of their party’s...
Oct 8, 1990 · Five years later, in 1978, Governor John Sununu appointed Souter to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. In 1990, Sununu, while serving as George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff, recommended Souter for Justice Brennan’s seat on the Supreme Court.
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Jan 1, 2010 · Last spring, David Hackett Souter ’66—the U.S. Supreme Court’s 105th justice—announced his retirement and stepped down at the end of the term. The Bulletin asked four alumni who had firsthand experience with the justice for their reflections.
