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|birth_place = Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |alma_mater = Harvard University Magdalen College, Oxford |religion = Episcopalianism |signature = Souter signature.png }} David Hackett Souter (; born September 17, 1939) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Press Release )〕 Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J. Brennan, Jr., Souter sat on both the Rehnquist and Roberts courts and came to vote reliably with the court's liberal members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David H. Souter )〕 He was the only Justice during his time on the Court with extensive prior court experience outside of a federal appeals court. He served as a prosecutor (1966–1968), in the New Hampshire Attorney General's office (1968–1976), as the Attorney General of New Hampshire (1976–1978), as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire (1978–1983), as an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (1983–1990) and briefly as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1990).〔 Following Souter's retirement announcement in May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor as his successor.〔Sherman, Mark (Souter says Goodbye to the Supreme Court ), ''Washington Examiner'', May 5, 2009〕 ==Early life and education== Souter was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1939, the only child of Joseph Alexander Souter (1904–1976) and Helen Adams (Hackett) Souter (1907–1995).〔Yarbrough, Tinsley E. ("David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court" ), Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-515933-0 〕〔(Biography David Hackett Souter ), Cornell University Law School〕 At age 11, he moved with his family to their farm in Weare, New Hampshire.〔 Souter attended Concord High School in New Hampshire〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL NOTABLES )〕 and went on to Harvard College, concentrating in philosophy and writing a senior thesis on the legal positivism of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In 1961, he graduated with an A.B. ''magna cum laude'' as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.〔(Supreme Court Justices Who Are Phi Beta Kappa Members ), Phi Beta Kappa website〕 He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (later promoted to a Master of Arts degree, as per tradition) from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1963. He then entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1966. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Souter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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