Bacon, Sylvia, 1931-
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Bacon, Sylvia, 1931-
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Bacon
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Sylvia
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1931-
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Born in Watertown, South Dakota, Bacon graduated Watertown High School[6] in 1949 and received a B.A. in Economics from Vassar College after three years (1952), a Graduate Certificate in Economics from the London School of Economics through a Rotary Fellowship (1953), an LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1956), and an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center (1959). While at Vassar, she was an officer in the National Student Association. From 1956 to 1957, she was a judicial law clerk to District Court judge Burnita Shelton Matthews.
She worked in various positions within the United States Department of Justice from 1956 to 1970, during which time she "helped draft the District of Columbia's controversial no-knock crime bill", and "served under Ramsey Clark and helped draft legislation for court reform in the District of Columbia." She was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1970, serving until 1991. She was considered to be a nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States by both Presidents Reagan and Nixon.
As of June 2010, Bacon was a "distinguished lecturer" on the faculty of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.
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