Background
SORENSEN, Theodore was born on May 8, 1928 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Christian A. Sorensen and Annis Chaikin.
lawyer and government official
SORENSEN, Theodore was born on May 8, 1928 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Christian A. Sorensen and Annis Chaikin.
University of Nebraska (Bachelor of Science in Law, 1949. Juris Doctor, 1951).
Worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (New York, New York) specializing in International Business Transactions. Admitted to the bar, 1951, Nebraska. 1966, United States. Supreme Court and New New York
1971, District of Columbia.
Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa. Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws: University of Canterbury, 1966.
University of Nebraska, 1969. Temple University, 1969.
Fairfield University, 1969.
Alfred University, 1969. Editor-in-Chief, Nebraska Law Review, 1950-1951. Attorney, Federal Security Agency, 1951-1952.
Counsel, Joint Congressional Committee on Railroad Retirement, 1952.
Assistant to United States. Senator, J.F. Kennedy, 1953-1961.
Special Counsel to President of United States., 1961-1964. Member: New York State Temporary Commission on the Constitutional Convention, 1966-1967.
Executive Committee, Lawyers" Committee for Civil Rights under Law, 1966-1976.
Member, President"s Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, 1978-1980. Chairman, Governor"s Panel on New York State Export Credit Agency, 1982-1983. Chairman, The Twentieth Century Fund, 1984.
Trustee, New York Academy of Medicine, 1991.
Director, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993. Advisory Board, Russian-American Press and Information Center, 1993.
Director and Counsel, South Africa Free Elections Fund, 1993-1994. Director, National Democratic Institute Foreign International Affairs, 1993.
Director, Central-Asian-American Enterprise Fund, 1995.
Member: Nebraska State Bar Association.
Decision-Making in The White House 1963, Kennedy 1964, The Kennedy Legacy 1970, Watchmen in the Night: Presidential Accountability After Watergate 1975, A Different Kind of Presidency 1984, A Widening Atlantic? Domestic Change and Foreign Policy (co-author Ralf Dahrendorf) 1986, Let the World go Forth: The Speeches, Statements and Writings of John F. Kennedy (Editor) 1988.
Member: New York State Temporary Commission on the Constitutional Convention, 1966-1967. Executive Committee, Lawyers" Committee for Civil Rights under Law, 1966-1976. Member, President"s Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, 1978-1980.
Chairman, Governor"s Panel on New York State Export Credit Agency, 1982-1983.
Chairman, The Twentieth Century Fund, 1984. Trustee, New York Academy of Medicine, 1991.
Director, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993. Advisory Board, Russian-American Press and Information Center, 1993.
Director and Counsel, South Africa Free Elections Fund, 1993-1994.
Director, National Democratic Institute Foreign International Affairs, 1993. Director, Central-Asian-American Enterprise Fund, 1995. Member: Nebraska State Bar Association.
Married Gillian Martin 1969.