Noonan, John Thomas, 1926-....

The 12th annual Reading of the Sacred Texts sponsored by the Friends of the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library was given February 11, 2004 in the Dinner Room at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

From the description of Interpreting the Constitution: spirit or structure. (Graduate Theological Union). WorldCat record id: 54804652

John T. Noonan received his MA and PhD from the Catholic University of America and his LLB from Harvard Law School. He has been an visiting professor at Southern Methodist, Stanford, UCLA, Harvard, and Notre Dame universities. He has received 7 honorary Doctor of Law degrees from various universities including the University of Notre Dame. He engaged in private practice at Herrick & Smith in Boston, MA, and has held a number of government positions including that of special member of the Presidential Commission on Population, and consultant to the National Endowment For The Humanities. He was appointed to The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan.

Noonan is Robbins Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books, including, Bribes (1987), The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998), and Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002).

From the description of Honorable John T. Noonan, McDonald Chair for the Study of Jesus and Culture, 2002, 2005 (Emory University). WorldCat record id: 180128910