Earl Warren - Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile,

I caught hell for."

Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and one of only two people to be elected Governor of California three times. Before holding these positions, Warren served as a district attorney for Alameda County, California and Attorney General of California. He is best known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending school prayer, and requiring "one-man-one vote" rules of apportionment. He made the Court a power center on a more even base with Congress and the presidency especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966).

For more information go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren

or

Earl Warren College, University of California at San Diego:
http://warren.ucsd.edu/about/biography.html


COMMENT: I started off with a good quote by Earl Warren. He helped make a number of decisions that were and are still significant in the history of jurisprudence in the USA.