Jackson Law Clerk To Join Roundtable
CHAUTAUQUA — E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, will appear at a roundtable discussion of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board II at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Elizabeth Lenna Hall at Chautauqua Institution.
The public is welcome to attend the discussion, offered free of charge as part of a six-event series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education II. Program sponsors include Allied Fire Protection Systems Inc., Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency, the Cummins Foundation of Cummins Inc.; HSBC Bank USA, N.A.; Phillips Lytle Attorneys and the Supreme Court Historical Society.
"It is central to our mission, and important to our future as The Jackson Center, to offer an opportunity for people to learn about the judicial system and the making of landmark decisions that have shaped our nation," said Gregory L. Peterson, Jackson Center president." While E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., brings personal insights into Justice Jackson’s thinking and his work which helped shape Brown, he brings tremendous expertise to the table as he has argued 19 cases in the Supreme Court."
Prettyman Jr., a Washington, D. C. native, is a graduate of Yale University in 1949 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1953, where he was Decisions Editor of the Virginia Law Review, Moot Court winner, and best Law Review Note winner.
Prettyman served as Justice Jackson’s final law clerk during the October terms 1953 and 1954. When Jackson died, he clerked for Justices Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan, successively.
He joined Hogan & Hartson, left to be Special Assistant to the Attorney General and to the White House during the Kennedy Administration, and returned to the firm as a partner. More recently, he served as Inspector General of the District of Columbia.
Prettyman was the first president of the District of Columbia Bar and President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and the D.C. Bar Foundation, and is Vice President of The Supreme Court Historical Society. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his book, Death and the Supreme Court. He serves as chair of the Supreme Court Judicial Fellows Commission and today is of counsel to Hogan & Hartson.
For more information, call the Jackson Center at 664-6646.