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Archived, Chief Justice John Roberts Speech from UM 9/13/2007 - September 17, 2007
Chief Justice John Roberts gave a public lecture at The University of Montana on Thursday September 13, 2007. Montana Public Radio broadcast the speech live that day at 2:00pm and aired an encore at 8:00pm that evening. The archived audio includes commentary and analysis by News Director Sally Mauk along with U.M. law professors Rob Natelson and Cynthia Ford.
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Chief Justice Roberts is the fourth member of the U.S. Supreme Court to be featured in the prestigious Judge William B. Jones and Judge Edward A. Tamm Judicial Lecture Series.
This is the ninth installment in a series presented by UM’s law school to enhance understanding of the judicial system. Previous speakers have included Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Clarence Thomas, Stephen G. Breyer, and former U.S. education secretary and drug czar William J. Bennett. Thomas F. Hogan, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, gave the last Jones-Tamm lecture in 2005.
Roberts was nominated as Chief Justice by President George W. Bush and took his seat on Sept. 29, 2005.
Born in Buffalo, New York on Jan. 27, 1955, he received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1976 and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1979. He then served as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1979 to 1980 and as a law clerk for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1980 term. Roberts served as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General from 1981 to 1982, associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1986, and principal deputy solicitor general from 1989 to 1993. From 1986 to 1989 and 1993 to 2003, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. He served as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2003 to 2005.
The Jones-Tamm Lecture Series honors the memory of two former Montanans who had distinguished careers on the federal bench in Washington, D.C. Both Jones and Tamm were trial judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Tamm also served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The two judges had strong ties to Montana and its law school.
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| Northwest Area Foundation Grant Funds News Reports on Poverty Issues |
Through 2008 the Montana Public Radio News Department will be presenting regular feature stories about issues of poverty in Montana. This project is made possible with a two-year, $78,500 grant from the Northwest Area Foundation. The funding will enable Montana Public Radio to add a half-time reporter to its staff for the duration of the project, as well as cover costs for field recording equipment and travel throughout western and central Montana. News Director Sally Mauk says, “I’m excited about the project and the opportunity to get our news staff out to many Montana communities to report on such an important and timely topic.”
The Northwest Area Foundation approached Montana Public Radio with this opportunity for funding coverage of poverty issues, after beginning successful projects with Minnesota Public Radio and Seattle’s KUOW. The Northwest Area Foundation’s mission is to help communities in an eight-state region (including Montana) reduce poverty. www.nwaf.org.
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