Background
Hawkins, Michael Daly was born on February 12, 1945 in Winslow, Arizona, United States. Son of William Bert and Patricia Agnes (Daly) Hawkins.
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Michael Daly Daly Hawkins
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Bachelor, Arizona State University, 1967; Juris Doctor cum laude, Arizona State University, 1970; Master of Laws, University of Virginia, 1998.
Career
Born in Winslow, Arizona, Hawkins received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Arizona State University in 1967 and 1970, respectively, and his Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia in 1998. He was the United States Attorney for Arizona from 1977 until 1980, and was a Special Prosecutor for the Navajo Nation from 1985 through 1989. He also served in the United States Marine Corps as a special courts martial military judge from 1973 until 1976.
He served in private practice from 1970 until 1973. Hawkins was nominated to his seat on the court by President Bill Clinton on July 13, 1994 and was confirmed by the United States Senate later that year. Hawkins took senior status on February 12, 2010.
Hawkins attracted some negative attention when he dissented against a vote for a rehearing of the Savana Redding Advil Strip Search Case. The strip-search case was brought by the mother of Savana Redding, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade student at a public middle school in Safford, Ariz. A trial judge dismissed the parent’s case against the school officials, ruling that they were immune from suit.
After a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that decision, the full appeals court agreed to a rehearing. Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, dissenting against the rehearing, said the case was in some ways “a close call,” given the “humiliation and degradation” Savana had endured. But, Judge Hawkins concluded, “I do not think it was unreasonable for school officials, acting in good faith, to conduct the search in an effort to obviate a potential threat to the health and safety of their students.” “I would find this search constitutional,” he wrote, “and would certainly forgive the Safford officials’ mistake as reasonable.” In an aside, he discounted Savana’s school record.
“Unless we think that the Fourth Amendment gives greater protection to good test takers,” he added, “there is only so much weight we can give to Redding’s honor-student status.”.
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Member Arizona Lottery Commission, 1980—1983, Commission on Uniform State Laws, 1988—1993. Member of American Bar Association, National Association Former United States Attorneys (president 1989-1990), Administrative Conference United States (public member 1985-1994), Phoenix Trial Lawyers Association, Arizona Trial Lawyers Association (board directors 1976-1977, state secretary 1976-1977), State Bar of Arizona (James Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award 2003), Maricopa County Bar Association (board directors 1975-1977, 1981-1989, president 1987-1988).
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Married Phyllis A. Lewis, June 4, 1966. Children: Aaron, Adam.
