Robert Heron Bork

Judge Robert Heron Bork

Personal

Birthday:

3/1/1927

Birthplace:

Pittsburgh, PA

Date of Death:

12/19/2012

Place of Death:

Arlington, VA

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

U.S. Marine Corps, 1945-1946, 1950-1952
Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1955-1962
Professor, Yale Law School, 1962-1981
Solicitor general of the United States, 1973-1977
Acting attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1973-1974
Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982

Nominated to Supreme Court of the United States, July 7, 1987; rejected by Senate, October 23, 1987

Education

Name of School:

University of Chicago

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1948

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1953

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Court Name:

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating:

Ronald Reagan

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

2/9/1982

Termination Date:

2/5/1988

Termination Reason:

Resignation