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62 Brief 1 (1966-1967)
Issue 1

handle is hein.journals/briephid62 and id is 3 raw text is: THE BRIEF Volume 62, Number 1 Fall, 1966 Mr. Justice Fortas Honored By The John Marshall Inn The Hon. Abe Fortas (left) and new Magis- ter of Marshall Inn, Hugh Yarrington. The Hon. Mr. Justice Abe Fortas, the most recent appointee to the Supreme Court of the United States, became an honorary member of John Marshall Inn at George Washington Univer- sity last spring. He joins his colleagues Chief Justice Warren and Justices Black, Brennan, Harlan, Stewart and White as members of the Fraternity. Sixty-three students at George Washington University School of Law were also initiated at the ceremony. The initiation ban- quet was held in the Empire Room of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington with some two hundred persons including Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Hugo Black in attendance. Justice Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court in Octo- ber of 1965 succeeding Justice Goldberg. He is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, a graduate of the Yale Law School and is a co-founder of the law firm of Porter & Fortas. From 1942 to 1946 Justice Fortas was Under Secretary of the Interior fol- lowing several years of service as attorney for various govern- ment agencies.