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Prettyman, Elijah Barrett was born on June 1, 1925 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Elijah Barrett and Lucy Courtney (Hill) Prettyman.
(Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Award for the Be...)
Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Award for the Best Fact Crime Book of 1961. Six crimes were committed that demanded the death penalty, and six condemned men made final appeals for their lives to the United States Supreme Court. Their case histories make up the major part of this dramatic and important book. The roles of the participants - the criminals, the police, the lawyers and the Justices of the Supreme Court - are examined in depth. The author goes beyond the mere chronicling of true events. His book provides a knowledge of the workings of American courts and gives clearer insight into one of our most important challenges - the pursuit of justice. E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. served as Justice Jackson's final law clerk during the October Terms of 1953 and 1954 and, upon the Justice's death, clerked for Justices Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan, successively. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Decisions Editor of the Virginia Law Review, Moot Court winner and best Law Review Note winner, Prettyman joined the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson following his Supreme Court Law Clerkship. He then became Special Assistant to the Attorney General and to the White House during the Kennedy Administration. Following his government service, Prettyman returned to his former law firm as a partner. Prettyman served as Inspector General of the District of Columbia. He was the first President of the District of Columbia Bar and President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the D.C. Bar Foundation and is Vice President of the Supreme Court Historical Society. In 2007, The American Lawyer selected Prettyman as one of the 2007 Lifetime Achievers and featured him in the September 2007 issue. Prettyman has argued 19 cases in the Supreme Court, serves as Chair of the Supreme Court Judicial Fellows Commission, and is "of counsel" to Hogan & Hartson.
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Prettyman, Elijah Barrett was born on June 1, 1925 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Elijah Barrett and Lucy Courtney (Hill) Prettyman.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1949; Bachelor of Laws, University of Virginia, 1953.
Private practice, Washington, since 1955;
law clerk to Honorary Justices Jackson, Frankfurter and Harlan, Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1953-1955;
associate, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, 1955-1963;
partner, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, since 1964;
inspector general, District of Colorado, Washington, since 1998. Special assistant to Attorney General United States, 1963, White House, 1963-1964. Also President's representative to Interagy.
Committee on Transport Mergers. Special consultant subcommittee toinvestigate problems connected with refugees and escapees United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Vietnam, 1967-1968. Outside consultant to subcommittee on oversight and investigations, House of Representatives commission on internal and foreign commerce, 1978.
Special consultant for ABSCAM investigation to Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, United States House of Representatives, 1980-1981. Trustee emeritus, past exec committee American U., Washington. Past trustee, member Executive Committee WashingtonJournalism Center.
Advising committee Media Law Reporter.
(Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Award for the Be...)
Past corporation member Salvation Army. Past member of advisory committee Procedures of Judicial Council, District of Columbia. Past member of advisory board Institute Comm.
Law Studies, Catholic U. Board of Governors St. Albans School, 1957-1963, 65-72, chairman, 1965-1967. Past member of national advising committee National Institute for Citizen Education in Law.
Board directors, past president Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Faulkner Foundation. Vice president, chairman publication committee, Executive Committee Supreme Court History Society. Past international advisory group Toshiba Corporation.
Commissioner Judicial Fellows Commission With Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Fellow American Bar Association. Member American College Trial Lawyers, Judicial Conference District of Columbia Circuit, District of Columbia Bar Foundation (president 1983-1984), Metropolitan Washington Board Trade, District of Columbia Bar Association(1st president 1972-1973, Board of Governors 1973-1974, Lawyer of Year award 1998), American Judicature Society (past vice president, Executive Committee), American Academy Appellate Lawyers (past president), Lawyers Club (past president), Vinson Club, Alfalfa Club, Barrister Club, Metropolitan Club, Chevy Chase Club.
Children by previous marriage: Elijah Barrett III, Jill Savage Lukoschek.