Sylvia Bacon

Judge, Person

1931 –

78

Who is Sylvia Bacon?

Sylvia Bacon was a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia who was considered by both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, at a time when no women had yet been appointed to the Court.

Born in Watertown, South Dakota, Bacon attended Watertown High School, and received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1952, a Certificate from the London School of Economics in 1953, an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1956, and an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1959. While at Vassar, she was an officer in the National Student Association. From 1956 to 1957, she was a law clerk to District Court judge Burnita Shelton Matthews. She worked in various positions within the United States Department of Justice from 1956 to 1970, during which time she "helped draft the District of Columbia's controversial no-knock crime bill", and "served under Ramsey Clark and helped draft legislation for court reform in the District of Columbia". She was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1970, serving until 1991.

Bacon is currently a "distinguished lecturer" on the faculty of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.

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Born
Jul 9, 1931
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Education
  • Harvard Law School
  • London School of Economics and Political Science

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on July 23, 2013

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