Justice young biography

The Honorable Robert Young, Jr. long and remarkable judicial career includes 7 years spent as a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He was first appointed to the court in 1999, elected in 2000 and 2002 and again won re-election eight years later. In 2011, Justice Young was elected Chief Justice where he served with distinction by improving the service and performance of the Michigan judiciary. In acknowledgment of his extensive understanding and fair application of state, federal, and constitutional law, in May 2016, Justice Young was selected to be on a list of potential nominees to the United States Supreme Court.

Both before his appointment to and after his retirement from the bench, he spent two decades in private practice. While in private practice and in his role as general counsel in two major organizations, he regularly resolved complex federal and state statutory, common law, and commercial legal issues. His broad understanding of how businesses and governments function at all levels and how litigation and appellate processes work have impressed upon him the need for effective and dispute resolution by an arbitrator/mediator with a broad and diverse background.

As a self-described judicial traditionalist, Judge Young has committed to a scholarly and neutral position in his interpretation of the law while simultaneously acknowledging the very human consequences of his decisions. As described by the Wall Street Journal, Judge Young’s Court could be described as “the finest court in the nation” and “a leader in attempting to restore a proper balance between the judiciary, the legislature, and the people.” (“The Finest Court in the Nation.” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2005.)

Whether authoring decisions involving disputes over the power of the government to transfer by eminent domain privately owned real estate to another private entity for a commercial business and technology park (Wayne County v. Hathcock, 2004) or applying Michig

Justice Young has long served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he has been named professor of the year. His courses on Federal Courts and Religious Liberty have attracted a wide variety of energetic and accomplished students whose diversity of viewpoints have enriched and enlivened the discussions and debates for everyone. Evan has also taught four short courses at the University of Mississippi School of Law, mostly involving U.S. Supreme Court history.

Articles covering Evan’s legal practice have been published nationally, including in the Washington Post and the National Law Journal. Evan has also written widely, ranging from technical legal articles, to an op-ed in USA Today, to a biography of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark that was written while he was still a high school student—at Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio. He has served in leadership roles in community organizations, such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Texas Regional Office.

Justice Young is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has served for many years on the Supreme Court Advisory Committee, which drafts all the rules that apply in Texas courts. In 2017, Governor Abbott nominated Evan to the Texas Judicial Council, and the Texas Senate confirmed him. Evan served on the Council, which is the policy-making body for the Texas Judiciary and studies a wide variety of court reforms, until his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Justice Young holds a law degree from Yale; a First Class degree in Modern History from Oxford University, where he was a British Marshall Scholar; and an undergraduate degree in History with minors in Japanese and Political Science from Duke University, where he was an A.B. Duke Memorial Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude.

Appointed Associate Justice at age 34

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 25, 1840, George B. Young graduated from Harvard Law School in 1863, and was admitted to practice in New York City in 1864. Young practiced in New York for several years before relocating to Minnesota in 1870. He married his wife Ellen Fellows from Martha's Vineyard on September 28, 1870. Young was admitted to practice in Minnesota that same year and practiced law until 1874, when Governor Cushman Davis appointed him Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the the promotion of Associate Justice Samuel McMillan who was promoted to Chief Justice after the retirement of Chief Justice Ripley. His time as a Justice was brief, leaving when his term expired, but from 1875 until 1892, Young served as Supreme Court Reporter, editing volumes 21-47 of the Minnesota Reports. Thereafter he resumed the private practice of law until his death in St. Paul on December 30, 1906. Much of his work involved the railroads and he knew James J. Hill. His nephew Edward also became a lawyer and lived with him in his residence at 324 Summit Ave. in St. Paul.

You may read more about Justice Young in the memorial and articles, linked below, and in the book Testimony: Remembering Minnesota’s Supreme Court Justices, which is a source of this brief biography.

American judge (born 1951)

Robert P. Young Jr. (born June 13, 1951) is a former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Young was first appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1999, elected in 2000 and 2002, and again won reelection in 2010 for a term ending in 2019. Justice Young announced he would be retiring from the court at the end of April 2017. Young is a self-described judicial traditionalist or textualist. In June 2017, Young announced his intentions to run against Debbie Stabenow in the 2018 senate race, but later dropped out saying he could not raise enough money for his campaign.

Early life and education

Young was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Young has recounted how he was raised in a city that was operating under de facto segregation at the time; when he was a child, his family was one of the first to integrate northwest Detroit. He attended Detroit public elementary schools and graduated from Detroit Country Day School in 1970, with honors from Harvard College in 1974, and from Harvard Law School in 1977.

Professional life

In 1978, Young joined the law firm of Dickinson Wright, where he became a partner in 1982. In 1992, he joined AAA Michigan where he served as general counsel. In 1995, Young was appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals, and later elevated to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor John