Conrad Kenneth Harper

Background

Harper, Conrad Kenneth was born on December 2, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Archibald Leonard and Georgia Florence (Hall) Harper.

Education

Bachelor, Howard U., 1962; Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1965; Doctor of Laws (honorary), CUNY, 1990; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Vermont Law School, 1994.

Career

Law clerk, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Ednl. Fund, New York City, 1965-1966; staff lawyer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Ednl. Fund, New York City, 1966-1970; associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, 1971-1974; partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, 1974-1993, 96-; legal adviser, unites states department of State, Washington, 1993-1996.

Lecturer law Rutgers University, 1969-1970. Visiting lecturer law Yale University, 1977-1981. Consultant Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1977.

Chairman admissions and grievances committee United States Court Appeals, 2d circuit, 1987-1993. Co-chairman Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1987-1989. Member Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 1993-1996, 98-, Administrative Conference United States, 1993-1995.

Board directors New York Life Insurance Company, Public Svc. Enterprise Group, Public Svc. Electric & Gas.

Achievements

• Conrad Kenneth Harper has been listed as a reputable Lawyer, government official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Institute International Education, 1992-1993, New York Public Library., chairman of the executive committee, 1990-1993, vice chairman of the board of trustees, 1991-1993. Trustee William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, since 1990, Metropolitan Museum of Art, since 1996. Board of managers Lewis Walpole Library., 1989-1993.

Board visitors Fordham Law School, 1990-1993, CUNY, 1989-1993. Vestryman Church of St. Barnabas, Irvington, New York, 1982-1985. Board directors Phi Beta Kappa Associations, 1992-1993.

Chancellor The Episcopalian Diocese of New York, 1987-1992. Member board legal advisors Martindale-Hubbell, 1990-1993. Fellow American Bar Foundation, New York Bar Foundation, American College Trial Lawyers, American Academy Arts and Sciences.

Member American Bar Association (board editors journal 1980-1986), Internat.Bar Association, National Bar assosiation, New York State Bar Association, Association of Bar of City of New York (chairman of the executive committee 1979-1980, president 1990-1992), American Law Institute (member county since 1985, 2nd vice president since 1998), American Association for International Commission Jurists (board directors 1988-1993), American Society International Law (member executive county since 1997, member Executive Committee since 1998), International Law assosiation, New York Law Institute (mem.exec. committee since 1997), American Arbitration Association (board directors 1990-1993, 97-, member Executive Committee since 1998), Academy Political Science (board directors since 1998), Council Fgn.Rels., Academy American Poets (board directors 1990-1993), Grolier Club (county mem.1993, 97-), Century Association, Harvard Club (member board of managers 1993), Yale Club, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Marsha LouiseWilson, July 17, 1965. Children: Warren Wilson, Adam Woodburn.

Father:

Archibald Leonard Harper

Mother:

Georgia Florence (Hall) Harper

Spouse:

Marsha LouiseWilson

child:

Adam Woodburn Harper

child:

Warren Wilson Harper