Background
Nixon, Robert W. was born on February 7, 1940 in Salem, New Jersey, United States.
Nixon, Robert W. was born on February 7, 1940 in Salem, New Jersey, United States.
Columbia Union College (Bachelor of Arts, 1961). Boston University (Master of Science, 1964). Washington College of Law of American University (Juris Doctor, 1974).
Phi Alpha Delta.
Worked at SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH (General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists) specializing in General Counsel, International Law, Intellectual Property Law, Corporate Law. Admitted to the bar, 1975, Maryland. 1976, District of Columbia.
1977, United States.
District Court, District of Maryland. 1979, United States. District Court for the District of Columbia, United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States.
Court of Appeals, Third, and Fourth Circuits, United States.
Tax Court and United States. Supreme Court.
Phi Alpha Delta.
Author: "Journey to the Gulag," Liberty (January-February 1992). "Key Cases Shaping Religious Liberty," Christianity Today (October 7, 1991).
"Court Buries Indian Rights," Liberty (March-April 1989).
"Le respect des pratiques religieuses de employée," Conscience et Liberté 86 (1983). "To Xerox or Not to Xerox," Journal of Adventist Education (January 1982). Company-author: with Albert P. Blaustein, "Church and State," Guide to American Law 316 (West Publishing), 1983.
With Lee Boothby, "Religious Accommodation: An Often Delicate Task," 57 Notre Dame Lawyer 797 (1982).
Board of Trustees, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 1994. Board of Directors, Council on Religious Freedom, 1985-1997.
Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Maryland State and American Bar Associations.
Public Relations Society of America.
(General Counsel).
The District of Columbia Bar. Montgomery County, Maryland State, Federal and American Bar Associations. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.