| William Rehnquist (Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) Born in 1924 and a native of
Shorewood, Wisconsin, Stanford and Harvard educated, Rehnquist began his court experience
in 1952 as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. In 1969,
following 16 years of private law practice in Phoenix, Arizona, he was appointed Assistant
U.S. Attorney General by President Richard M. Nixon. Two years later, he was named an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and, upon the nomination of President Ronald
Reagan, became Chief Justice on September 26, 1986. Rehnquist was active in civic and
church work in Arizona and continues to be an active member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church,
Bethesda, Maryland.
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