S. HRG. 109-158

CONFIRMATION HEARING ON THE NOMINATION OF JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR. TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

SEPTEMBER 12-15, 2005

Serial No. J-109-37

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman

DAVID BROG, Staff Director

MICHAEL O'NEILL, Chief Counsel

BRUCE A. COHEN, Democratic Chief Counsel and Staff Director

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Bellia, Patricia L., Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School, South Bend,
Indiana

Botelho, Hon. Bruce, former Attorney General, State of Alaska, and Mayor
of Juneau, Alaska, Juneau, Alaska

Braceras, Jennifer Cabranes, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
and Visiting Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, Boston, Massachu-
setts

Bradley, Kathryn Webb, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School, Durham,
North Carolina

Browner, Carol M., former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, and Principal, The Albright Group, Washington, D.C.
Edelman, Peter B., Professor of Law, Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and
Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Engler, John, former Governor of Michigan, and President, National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers, Washington, DC.

Fried, Charles, former Solicitor General of the United States, Beneficial Pro-
fessor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Furchtgott-Roth, Diana, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
Greenberger, Marcia, Co-President, National Women's Law Center, Wash-
ington, D.C.

Henderson, Wade, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
Washington, D.C.

Jackson, Roderick, Coach, Ensley High School, Birmingham, Alabama
Jones, Beverly, Lafayette, Tennessee

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Jones, Nathaniel, Judge (retired), U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit, Of Counsel, Blank Rome LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio

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Kirsanow, Peter, Partner, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplay & Aronoff, and Com-
missioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Cleveland, Ohio
Lewis, Hon. John, a Representative in Congress from the State of Georgia
Lindberg, Denise Posse-Blanco, Judge, Third Judicial District Court, State
of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Mahoney, Maureen E., Partner, Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.

Pearl, Karen, Interim President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
New York, New York

Polakoff, Dale, Rabbi and President, Rabbinical Council of America, Great
Neck, New York

Reich, Robert B., former Secretary of Labor and University Professor and Maurice B. Hexler Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

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Resnik, Judith, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School, New
Haven, Connecticut

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Stetson, Catherine E., Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C.
Strauss, David, Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Law School, Chicago, Illinois

Tallman, Ann Marie, President and General Counsel, Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Los Angeles, California
Thistlethwaite, Susan, President, Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illi-

nois

Thornburg, Dick, former Attorney General of the United States, former Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania, and Counsel, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson
Graham, Washington, D.C.
Tober, Stephen L., Chairman, American Bar Association Standing Committee
on the Federal Judiciary, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; accompanied by
Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr., Past Chairman, American Bar Association Stand-
ing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Chicago, Illinois and Pamela A.
Bresnahan, D.C. Circuit Representative, American Bar Association, Wash-
ington, D.C.

Turner, Reginald M., Jr., President, National Bar Association, Detroit, Michi

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