LEWIS POWELL JR.

Associate Justice (1972 - 1987)

QUICK FACTS

APPOINTED BY

Richard Nixon

PRECEDED BY

Hugo Black

BIRTHPLACE

Virginia

SWORN IN

January 7, 1972

SUCCEEDED BY

Anthony Kennedy

LAW SCHOOL

Washington & Lee University

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“History balances the frustration of ‘how far we have to go’ with the satisfaction of ‘how far we have come.’ It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.”

— Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.

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